The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . window divided intothree lights by vertical mullions(fig. 13), which had been intro-duced at a somewhat earlierdate. A still more character-istic example of what we willterm the French window maybe cited from the kitchen-rangeof Clare Hall, built 1689 ().] This pattern immediatelysuperseded the old one, and wasemployed in every building ofthe University until it wasitself supplanted by the sash-windows of William and Marystime. Dr Bentley appears tohave been the first who intro-duced sas
The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . window divided intothree lights by vertical mullions(fig. 13), which had been intro-duced at a somewhat earlierdate. A still more character-istic example of what we willterm the French window maybe cited from the kitchen-rangeof Clare Hall, built 1689 ().] This pattern immediatelysuperseded the old one, and wasemployed in every building ofthe University until it wasitself supplanted by the sash-windows of William and Marystime. Dr Bentley appears tohave been the first who intro-duced sash-windows into Cam-bridge. He fitted the MastersLodge at Trinity College with WINDOWS. 557 them in 1700. The example set by him was followed at ClareHall, where the north half of the river-front was built by Grum-bold between 1709 and 1715 after the same design as thesouthern half. But sash-windows were now employed, and themullion and transom of the older design were at the sametime cut away from the southern portion in order to make itharmonise with the new work. Sash-windows were also used at. Fig. 13. North front of the west end of Sir Robert Hitchams Building at Pembroke College, built 1659—71. Trinity Hall, and at Corpus Christi College. [Similar windowshad been introduced into the Provosts Lodge at Eton Collegein 1689—90.] The introduction of these sash-windows in placeof the ancient mullioned window was much more destructive ofthe architectural character of the colleges than any other change,from the glaring discrepancy between them and the other arrange-ments of the original buildings. 553 STYLE OF COLLEGIATE BUILDINGS. [The complete renaissance window so common in the worksof Inigo Jones and Sir Christopher Wren was no doubt suggestedby the tabernacles of the Pantheon; but examples of this purelyclassical style are not so frequent in Cambridge as in Oxford,though they are used in the Senate-House and in one or twoother buildings.] In the majority of the works that
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