The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge and of the Colleges of Cambridge and Eton 2 Part Set

by Robert Willis , Edited by John Willis Clark

• ISBN13: 9780521136020
• ISBN10: 0521136024
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-17
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Robert Willis' monumental architectural history of the University of Cambridge, first published in 1886 in a revised and extended edition by his nephew J. W. Clark, was hailed as 'one of the most important contributions to the social and intellectual history of England which has ever been made by a Cambridge man.' These fully illustrated volumes are here reprinted in their entirety, with a modern introduction by Professor David Watkin. Although Willis and Clark has always been recognised by those interested generally in the conservation of buildings and in the historic development of architectural style and taste, its unique collection of over three hundred plans, antique and specially commissioned engravings is alone sufficient to make this an indispensable work of reference on Cambridge architecture before the onset of the modern age.

Table of Contents

University Buildings

Schools, library, senate-house

Printing-house, museums and lecture rooms for natural science, observatory, Fitzwilliam museum and Selwyn Divinity School

Essays on component parts of a college

The Collegiate plan

The gateway

The chambers and studies

The master's lodge

The hall, the kitchen etc

The combination room

The library

The treasury or muniment room

The Chapel

The style of collegiate buildings: as modified by the revival of classical architecture and by the influence of individual architects

The tennis-court, the bowling green, the garden etc

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