made up, and that the Master or his locum tenens and major part of ye senior fellows present in College be impowered to agree and contract with ye workmen for their several prices, and that the Chestkeepers or their deputies be impowered to issue mony for paying of ye workmen out of ye college chest."

The work done from 1709 to 1715 cost £2501. 15s. 94d.']

Thus the Quadrangle was completed in seventy-six years from the beginning.

The last portion included

the north half of the River front, which in design is a copy of the south. But during the interval between the building of the two halves the crossed mullion had been superseded by the sash. The new windows were accordingly not only fitted with sashes, but the mullions and transoms, or crosses, were cut out of the earlier portion. This is evident by inspection, for the jambs of these windows retain the marks of the insertion of the original transoms on the south half of

1 Accounts, pp. 207, 211, 213. The following agreements (ibid. p. 188) give useful information concerning the progress of the Building.

"Mar. 1. 1705-6. Mr Grumbold's Proposalls then made for Finishing the

remaining Part of the New Building

Imprimis. For 150 foot of Rayle & Balaster on the west & east

side of the new Building, to find Stone & Workmanship at
15. p. foot

I12. IO. 00

For finding Stone & Workmanship for the Stack of Chimneys 25. 10 00
For the two Frontis-Peices over the gate to find Stone &
Workmanship....

For finishings for the Pedestalls on the West Side..

For finishings over both the Gates....

For Clensing & tooming down the Work on both sides the
New Building

80.00 .00

10. 00

IO. 00. 00

5

10. 00

the front, and on the north have evidently never been fitted with them. The original form of the windows was still farther interfered with in 1815 by cutting their sills down to a lower level, and thus destroying the characteristic pedestal form which they at first possessed'. [These changes will be best understood by the woodcut (fig. 9), which represents one compartment of the west front.

One

in the three stages. window, on the north side of the kitchen, still preserves its original mullion and transom without alteration. A figure of it is here given (figs. 10, 11), with its moldings.]

The Gateway fronts on the court side and river side of the west Range, were also built by Grumbold at the same time as the Master's Lodge". Loggan's print (fig. 8) shews the archway decorated with a dressing that rises only

Fig. 11. Kitchen window.

The College to find scaffolding, lime & sand, lead & Iron, & allowance for the Workmen in the Butterys." It was agreed between Mr Grumbold and Mr Clarke the Bursar, on Mar. 9, 1705-6, that the work should be done for £220.

1 [College Order Book. July 21, 1815. "Whereas the Window Frames on the West Side of the College have long been in a state of Decay, from the Effects of Time and the Weather, that new ones be put into the Windows according to the Plan best approved by the Master and resident Fellows in College: and as it would be advisable to lengthen the Windows on the Ground Floor, that the Plan and Estimate of Mr Tomson be approved of: and that the Opinion of an Architect be taken respecting the Lengthening of the Windows on the first Floor: leaving the ultimate decision upon any alteration to the Master and Resident Fellows in College." The builder employed was Mr Humfrey.] Harraden's view, published in 1809, shews these pedestals all along the river front.

2 Cole gives the following account of the Lodge (1742): "The Master's Lodge lies on ye W. end of ye Quadrangle & contains one half of it or more, viz. from ye Division of it by ye Arch wch leads to ye Bridge quite to ye End of it towards Trinity Hall, & is a very good one being like ye Front to ye River, sashed: some of

Fig. 12.
East front of the gate-way in the west range of Clare Hall, designed and built by

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