The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . ndtowers of abbeys2. The Queens Gate (1597), evidently intendedas a copy of King Edwards Gate, need not be further describedin this place3. The picturesque red-brick gateway-tower of Jesus College(1497), although destitute of angle-turrets, is yet distinguishedfrom the ground upwards by a slight relief; by stone quoins ;and by having its string-courses designedly placed at different 1 [History of Trinity College, Vol. II. pp. 452, 484, 486.] 2 The secondary gateway of All Souls College, which
The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . ndtowers of abbeys2. The Queens Gate (1597), evidently intendedas a copy of King Edwards Gate, need not be further describedin this place3. The picturesque red-brick gateway-tower of Jesus College(1497), although destitute of angle-turrets, is yet distinguishedfrom the ground upwards by a slight relief; by stone quoins ;and by having its string-courses designedly placed at different 1 [History of Trinity College, Vol. II. pp. 452, 484, 486.] 2 The secondary gateway of All Souls College, which has no tower over it, has apostern-arch. 8 [Vol. 11. p. 516.] 294 THE GATEWAY. levels from those of the chambers on each side of it1. Thegeneral disposition of the ornamentation of its arch and of thewall above it furnished the model for the more elaborate gate-houses at Christs College and at S. Johns College. The ogeehood-mold rises upwards, and the stem of its finial terminatesunder the base of a handsome tabernacle which occupies thecentre of the upper stage, with a window on each side of Fig. 3. Exterior view of one of the great doors of Queens College. Each of the spandrel-spaces contains a shield, and a largershield is to be found in the triangular field between the hood-mold and the arch. [The ponderous wooden doors with which these gatewayswere originally closed still exist in most of the colleges. That of 1 [These details will be readily understood from Loggans print.] GREAT GATES. 295 Queens College, as one of the least altered, is here figured as aspecimen (figs. 3, 4). It was evidently the intention of ProfessorWillis to describe them, and he had made a number of sketchesand notes for that purpose. He had not, however, written any-thing, and his collections are in such a fragmentary statethat it has been found impossible to ascertain how he intendedto treat the subject. Under these circumstances it has been
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