Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I THE COURTS AND BUILDINGS
- CHAPTER II SOME INTERIORS
- CHAPTER III KING'S HALL AND MICHAEL-HOUSE, 1316–1546
- CHAPTER IV FOUNDATION AND GROWTH OF TRINITY COLLEGE, I546–1615
- CHAPTER V THE COLLEGE FROM 1615 TO 1820
- CHAPTER VI THE NINETEENTH CENTURY RENAISSANCE
- INDEX
CHAPTER II - SOME INTERIORS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I THE COURTS AND BUILDINGS
- CHAPTER II SOME INTERIORS
- CHAPTER III KING'S HALL AND MICHAEL-HOUSE, 1316–1546
- CHAPTER IV FOUNDATION AND GROWTH OF TRINITY COLLEGE, I546–1615
- CHAPTER V THE COLLEGE FROM 1615 TO 1820
- CHAPTER VI THE NINETEENTH CENTURY RENAISSANCE
- INDEX
Summary
THUS far I have described the general external appearance of the College to any one who walked through its Courts and walks, and I refrained from interrupting my narrative by describing the interiors of the various buildings we passed. I devote this chapter to giving a short account of the interior aspects of the Chapel, Hall, Combination Rooms, Kitchens, and Library.
When walking round the Great Court we passed on its north side the porch leading into the Chapel. Entering by this, we find the interior divided in two unequal parts, the east end being fitted up for worship, the west end forming an Ante-Chapel into which the door from the Great Court leads. The two portions are divided by a screen on the top of which is built the organ. The present building, which is on the site of the Chapel of King's Hall, was finished about 1567, and it is believed that the fittings with which it was then furnished were taken from the Chapel of King's Hall. The present stalls, panel-work, baldachino, and organ-screen were inserted at the beginning of the eighteenth century ; there is a tradition that the old stalls were then moved to St. Michael's Church in Trinity Street.
The Chapel is of poor design, and in 1870 it was proposed to rebuild it.
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- Trinity College, Cambridge , pp. 25 - 35Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1906