The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . utes of New College, p. 88. In inferioribus autem cameris dicticollegii, quatuor fenestras et quatuor studiorum loca habentibus, sint semper quatuorscholares vel socii collocati.] 312 THE CHAMBERS AND STUDIES. south range of the principal quadrangle of New College (fig. 6),which has suffered the least alteration, each chamber-windowtowards the court has two lights, and is placed between two smallsingle-light windows, as in the Legge Building at Cambridge, andthere are two similar single-light
The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . utes of New College, p. 88. In inferioribus autem cameris dicticollegii, quatuor fenestras et quatuor studiorum loca habentibus, sint semper quatuorscholares vel socii collocati.] 312 THE CHAMBERS AND STUDIES. south range of the principal quadrangle of New College (fig. 6),which has suffered the least alteration, each chamber-windowtowards the court has two lights, and is placed between two smallsingle-light windows, as in the Legge Building at Cambridge, andthere are two similar single-light windows opposite to them inthe back wall. Thus three studies, marked I, 2, 3, on the plan,are provided for, one of them being nestled under the landingof the staircase. [The fourth occupant must have used thecommon bedroom as his study. This view is confirmed bythe examination of a chamber at Christs College, Cambridge,where we have the guidance of an inventory called An Accountof the Chambers, Studies, Inhabitants, and Incomes in the OuldCourt, taken Jan. 30, 1655. One of the rooms on the ground. Fig. 6. Ground-plan of part of the south range of the principal quadrangle at New College, Oxford, from Williams Oxonia Depicta. floor, there called Low Chambers, has three studies, and fouroccupants, whose names are given. The room is on the southside of the court, next to a staircase, with windows towardsthe court and towards the garden. The three studies are de-signated as follows: (1) by the chimney; (2) under the staires ;(3) to the court. This is precisely the arrangement at NewCollege.] In the earlier colleges at Cambridge the stairs run in a singlelong flight between two parallel partitions to an upper landing,on which, to the right and left, are the outer doors of the upperchambers. The space beneath the landing appears to have beenappropriated to one or two studies for the ground-chambers, andthe studies of the upper floor are often constructed over theentrance-landing of th
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