Cambridge and its history : with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrations . Master, and the whole rangeoccupied the northern side of the court. The so-calledinfirmary was utilised as a range of chambers, externalto the court and approached from it by a circuitouspassage at the east end of the chapel. The Labyrinth,as it was known in college days, was no doubt theveritable home of Balshams clerks and the scene oftheir wrangles with the Hospital brethren. In anunfortunate frenzy of megalomania, inspired by anoccupant of the Lady Margarets chair, who wa
Cambridge and its history : with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrations . Master, and the whole rangeoccupied the northern side of the court. The so-calledinfirmary was utilised as a range of chambers, externalto the court and approached from it by a circuitouspassage at the east end of the chapel. The Labyrinth,as it was known in college days, was no doubt theveritable home of Balshams clerks and the scene oftheir wrangles with the Hospital brethren. In anunfortunate frenzy of megalomania, inspired by anoccupant of the Lady Margarets chair, who was alsoa canon in Balshams cathedral, the College, in theyear 1869, destroyed this venerable monument whichlinked the Lady Margarets college with the Bishopsscholars, and at the same time it effaced its ancientchapel. Attached to the chapel was Fishers chantry,in which he had intended that his body should be previous desecration seemed to justify and inviteits removal, and it shared the general demolition. Glorious beyond all former time will be the fabricof our ancient House was the curiously inapposite. GATK OF KNTKANCK. SI. lOHNS ( «;K TRANSITION 91 utterance of the eloquent divine who prompted thehousehold of Saint John to obliterate the only materialevidence of its primordial antiquity. Ancient menwho had seen the former house may well have weptwith a loud voice when the foundation of the newwas laid. The rest of the court was completed by 1520. Itwas somewhat larger than that of Christs, on whichit was closely modelled ; but brick, as at Queens,was the material employed, not clunch, as at the end of the century the growth of the collegenecessitated the building of a second court, thebeautiful work of Ralf Symons. With its noble gallery,occupying the whole of the first floor on the north side,its gate-tower in the western range and the Masterstower in the north-west angle, it recalls the House ofPride, of which Spenser sang a few years before the
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