The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . 298 THE CHAMBERS AND STUDIES. space above it was utilised for a range of diminutive half-storey was lighted by dormer windows, the gables ofwhich were in the same plane as the main wall of the good example of this style of building was afforded by thePerse and Legge Buildings at Caius College (figs, i, 2), built. Fig. 1. The Perse and Legge Buildings, Gonville and Cains College, reduced from Loggans print, taken about 1688. 1618—19, the arrangements of which will be desc
The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . 298 THE CHAMBERS AND STUDIES. space above it was utilised for a range of diminutive half-storey was lighted by dormer windows, the gables ofwhich were in the same plane as the main wall of the good example of this style of building was afforded by thePerse and Legge Buildings at Caius College (figs, i, 2), built. Fig. 1. The Perse and Legge Buildings, Gonville and Cains College, reduced from Loggans print, taken about 1688. 1618—19, the arrangements of which will be described in detailbelow. It was also employed in the ranges which form thenorth and south sides of the principal court at Sidney SussexCollege (1596); on the north side of the second court at PROVISIONS IN THE STATUTES. 299 Pembroke College (1610); and in the Walnut Tree Court atQueens College (1616—19). In some examples the garrets wereabsent, as in the Founders Range at Emmanuel College, 1585,as shewn by Loggan; in the second Court of S. Johns College(1599); and in Neviles Court at Trinity College (1612). Early in the seventeenth century this mode was abandoned,and the ranges of chambers were built in two floors, or, moreusually, in three floors, with garrets lighted on both sides bydormer windows in the roof. Examples of ranges built afterthis fashion are Sir F. Clerkes building at Sidney Sussex College(1628); the Brick Bui
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