Peterhouse, by Thomas Alfred Walker (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II THE COLLEGE BUILDINGS At the outset, we have College buildings consisting of two small Hostels and a Refectory, with its complementary cooking quarters. The two Hostels were still standing in 1626, when Samuel Baron, Bursar, set down in his admirably kept account-book full details as to their occupants. The " Great Hostle" then contained ten chambers,1 the " Little Hostle " seven. That one of the Hostels occupied the site of the present Porter's Lodge appears from the description of the tenement of Robert Hewes, the butler, he having the Library as his western boundary. The " Little Hostle " was pulled down when the Chapel was built in 1628-32. It evidently stood on the street-front of the Chapel. The " Great Hostle," in which apparently Hewes had his tenement, must have been razed for the completion of the Library range in 1633. The present Hall substantially represents the ] The number of " cubicles " in each chamber varied. In the largest chamber there were throe. The cook had a chamber in the " Great Hostle." The rent-paying chambers of 1626 other than those in the Hostels are comprehensively described as " In the Court." product of Hugo's last bounty. It has been re-roofed, buttresses have been added, the windows are modern, as is well-nigh all the interior decoration, but in its plan and in its main walls we have to-day practically the " Grand Hall" of the thirteenth century. The archway leading from the Buttery passage to the Grove indicates the period to which the building belongs. This archway represents the ancient south entrance to the Hall, the screen being an introduction of later and more luxurious days. The handsome doorway of the Hall, which gives access to the Combination-room, is likewise of somewhat later date. The mantel-piece chise...