The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . In the central room the difficulties of the plan seemto have driven the architect into the older arrangement, inwhich two bed-recesses are open to the room, possibly closedby curtains. 320 THE CHAMBERS AND STUDIES. [A similar arrangement was carried out at New College,Oxford, in 1681. The contract for the building then commencedon the south side of the garden-court, provides that it shallconteine three Roomes on a floure, with two Studies and twoBedplaces to each roome of sufficient capacity.
The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . In the central room the difficulties of the plan seemto have driven the architect into the older arrangement, inwhich two bed-recesses are open to the room, possibly closedby curtains. 320 THE CHAMBERS AND STUDIES. [A similar arrangement was carried out at New College,Oxford, in 1681. The contract for the building then commencedon the south side of the garden-court, provides that it shallconteine three Roomes on a floure, with two Studies and twoBedplaces to each roome of sufficient capacity. The planappended to the contract, part of which is here given (fig. 9),shews how this was done. In room A (which is at the end ofthe building, with three windows in the eastern wall) two studiesand two bed-rooms, marked 1, 2, 3, 4, on the plan, were easilyprovided, each lighted by a separate window; in the room nextto it, marked B, the same number appears, but the middle one(2) had no window. This arrangement still exists, except thatthe partitions between the studies have been removed. In A, for. Fig. 9. Ground-plan of part of the south range of the Garden-court of New College, Oxford ;reduced from the plan appended to the contract, dated 23 January, 1681. instance, the rooms marked I, 2, 3 have become a single bed-room, while the other (4) remains as a store-closet.] In the early colleges the windows of the chambers wereunglazed, and closed with wooden shutters; their floors wereeither of clay, or tiled; and their walls and ceilings were un-plastered. This is distinctly stated by Josselin, who, writingduring the reign of Queen Elizabeth, prefaces his minuteaccount of Corpus Christi College, to which reference has beenalready1 made, by the general statement that though the MastersLodge and the Fellows chambers were at that time glazed andpanelled, no work of the kind had been executed in any part ofthe college before the beginning of the reign of King Henry 1 [History of Corpu
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