Selections from The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge
Selections from The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge
Peterhouse
Robert Willis
John Willis Clark
John Willis Clark
September 2009
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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.
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September 2009Paperback
9780521147149
120 pages
229 × 152 × 6 mm
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Table of Contents
- 1. History of the site
- 2. History of the buildings derived from the Bursars' Rolls
- 3. Comparison of the existing buildings with the accounts, library, kitchen, hall and buttery, combination room, master's chambers, north range and other buildings
- 4. Buildings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- 5. Works of the eighteenth century
- 6. History of the Chapel
- 7. History of the old Chapel
- or, Church of St Mary the Less
- 8. History of particular buildings: hall, combination room, master's lodge
- Chronological summary
- Appendix.
