The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . Fig. 5. Fountain in the Great Court of Trinity College, begun 1601—2. To face p. 550. Vol. 111. DORMER-WINDOWS. 551 were badly lighted, and hence no doubt it came to pass thatthe roof-dormers very soon became wall-dormers, rising in aline with the main walls of the buildings which carried change naturally led to a corresponding transformation ofthe walls themselves.] During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in the buildings ofCaius College (1565), and in Dr Harveys works at Trinity Hall,
The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . Fig. 5. Fountain in the Great Court of Trinity College, begun 1601—2. To face p. 550. Vol. 111. DORMER-WINDOWS. 551 were badly lighted, and hence no doubt it came to pass thatthe roof-dormers very soon became wall-dormers, rising in aline with the main walls of the buildings which carried change naturally led to a corresponding transformation ofthe walls themselves.] During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in the buildings ofCaius College (1565), and in Dr Harveys works at Trinity Hall,we find for the first time the front of several dormer-windows. Fig. 6. Buildings of the Third Court of S. Johns College, 1669—71. carried up in masonry in continuation of the wall. They arenot however arranged with regard to symmetry. At EmmanuelCollege, Sidney Sussex College, the second court of S. JohnsCollege (all the work of Ralph Symons), and in Neviles Courtat Trinity College, as well as in the walnut-tree court at QueensCollege, the Perse Building at Caius College (destroyed 1868),and the second court of Pembroke College, these wall-dormersare arranged at equal distances along the length of the whole 552 STYLE OF COLLEGIATE BUILDINGS.
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