Selections from The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge: Peterhouse

by Robert Willis , John Willis Clark

• ISBN13: 9780521147149
• ISBN10: 052114714X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-17
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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', Robert Willis monumental architectural history of the University of Cambridge is here reprinted. 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. This selection from the Architectural History presents in a single volume the complete text relating to Peterhouse and features a new introduction by David Watkin, Professor Emeritus in the History of Architecture at the Department of Art History at Cambridge University.

Table of Contents

History of the site

History of the buildings derived from the Bursars' Rolls

Comparison of the existing buildings with the accounts, library, kitchen, hall and buttery, combination room, master's chambers, north range and other buildings

Buildings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Works of the eighteenth century

History of the Chapel

History of the old Chapel or, Church of St Mary the Less

History of particular buildings: hall, combination room, master's lodge

Chronological summary

Appendix

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