. A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial .. . with a cloifter in the front. Over the apartments ofthe fellows is a fine new library, furnifhed with a very valuablecollection of manufcripts, which were given to this college bythe ingenious Mr. Samuel Pepys, who was fecretary to the ad-miralty in the reigns of Chares II. and James II. The chapelof this college is extremely neat, and the workmanfhip of thealtar-piece is much admire
. A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial .. . with a cloifter in the front. Over the apartments ofthe fellows is a fine new library, furnifhed with a very valuablecollection of manufcripts, which were given to this college bythe ingenious Mr. Samuel Pepys, who was fecretary to the ad-miralty in the reigns of Chares II. and James II. The chapelof this college is extremely neat, and the workmanfhip of thealtar-piece is much admired. Here is a mafter, thirteen fellow%and thirty fcholars. Trinity College was founded by King Henry VIII. butlarge additions were afterwards made to it by Queen Mary, andfeveral fubfequent benefactors. It is a very grand ftru&ure, con-taining two fpacious quadrangles; the firft of which is much,the largeft, being three hundred and forty-four feet in length onthe weft fide, and three hundred and twenty five feet on theeaft, two hundred and eighty feet broad on the fouth fide, andtwo hundred and fifty-fix on the north. The entrance fromthe ftreet is by a grand gate, over which is a curious obferva- s u w*?g§l IBS1 ill THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. t$ tory. The entrance from the fonth is by a gate adorned withtowers, and called Queens gate; and oppofite to it, on thenorth, is another gate fimilar to it, with a noble clock, and nearit is the chapel, which is an exceeding neat ftru&ure. It is twohundred and four feet long, thirty-three feet eight inches broad*and forty-three feet feven inches high. A beautiful fimplicityr-eigns throughout this building: it is adorned with a grand altar-piece, {tails, and a noble organ gallery. Public worfhip isperformed here in the fame manner as in cathedrals. In the an-ti chamber is a very fine ftatue of Sir Ifaac Newton, which wasexecuted by Roubilliac, and is one of the finelt performances ofthat great mafter. The matters lodge is near the ch
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