The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . until about 1466. The north, west,and south sides were undertaken in succession, the east sidebeing still occupied by the primitive hostels. The chapel andcloisters were not begun until 1628. The ground which Hervey de Stanton purchased in 1324 forhis college of Michael House contained a mansion sufficientlyextensive for his scholars to reside in ; and it probably servedthem until William de Goothams chambers were built betweenfifty and sixty years afterwards1. In the same manner the 1 [Histor
The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . until about 1466. The north, west,and south sides were undertaken in succession, the east sidebeing still occupied by the primitive hostels. The chapel andcloisters were not begun until 1628. The ground which Hervey de Stanton purchased in 1324 forhis college of Michael House contained a mansion sufficientlyextensive for his scholars to reside in ; and it probably servedthem until William de Goothams chambers were built betweenfifty and sixty years afterwards1. In the same manner the 1 [History of Trinity College, Vol. II. p. 398.] 254 THE COLLEGIATE PLAN. [CHAP. scholars of Richard de Badew were located in the tenementsalready existing on the site of the present Clare Hall. Theywere replaced by more suitable structures by the Lady Clareafter 1338; but the college was not arranged on a quadrangularplan, so far as we know, until after the fire of 1521. Hammondsview of it, dated 1592 (fig. 3), shews a regular quadrangle, havingthe entrance on the east side. The. chapel was on the north. Fig. 3. Clare Hall, reduced from Hammonds map of Cambridge, dated 1592. side; the hall on the west side; and ranges of chambers on thesouth and north sides. The Master and the thirty-two scholarsof the royal foundation of Kings Hall had no special provisionmade for them, but were placed in the mansion and grounds ofRobert de Croyland in 1337. In subsequent years the house wasenlarged, and the hall was lengthened; in 1375 the rebuildingof the entire college on a new site was undertaken; but HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT. 255 it was not reduced to a regular quadrangular form untilabout 14201. We come in the next place to the group of four collegesfounded at Cambridge in the middle of the reign of KingEdward III., namely: Pembroke College, 1346; Gonville Hall,1348; Trinity Hall, 1350; and Corpus Christi College, these the first closed quadrangles are to be found. The area of the dimin
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