arches, except on the west side, where they rise to the original level. It should be remarked that the buttress under the east window of "Election Chamber" has been cut off just under the sill (fig. 28), thereby proving that it had previously been intended to carry up the wall of which it formed part to the same height as the adjoining portion. The angle-turret also at this corner is similar to the others, and was not altered when Lupton's work was built up against it at the beginning of the 16th century. It

Fig. 26.

is therefore tolerably certain that the cloister and the wall above it are of one time, and that it was left unfinished on the west side from lack of funds.

The chambers on the ground-floor are entered from the cloister through doorways of peculiar construction. They are in pairs, close together. At the intersection of the hood-molds there is a piece of foliage, and at their termination the molding is returned so as to form a square boss. The doors that are

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Fig. 28. Interior of the Cloister-Court, Eton College, looking south-west; shewing part of Election Hall, Lupton's Tower, and part of the Library.

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ornamented in this style, whether double or single, will be found of great use in determining the age of the walls in which they occur. There are four double doorways like the one first figured (fig. 29), marked cd, ef, gh, ik, on the plan (fig. 16), and three single ones; one on the outside at the entrance to the playing-fields (ibid. n), and two on the inside (ibid. o, p). In the west wall there is one double doorway (ibid. lm, fig. 30), and one single doorway (ibid. m'). These bear a close general resem

Fig. 27.

Elevation of the exterior and interior of one of the Arches in the Cloister.

blance to the others in their main features; but the pier between the two at Im is wider, the moldings are less elaborate, and the label terminates without the picturesque return so characteristic of the others. These differences may be taken to indicate a somewhat later date; while the general similarity of arrangement shews a desire on the part of those who finished this range to accommodate their work to the portions already constructed. We have seen that Provost Lupton began work on the cloister

in 1509-10, and that Humphrey Coke was paid for a design in 1510-11, and for executing it in 1514-15. These doors should perhaps be assigned to this time, as also the arch leading from the clock-tower into the cloister (fig. 39). It is of a different style from the rest of the tower, and is also built of a different stone, which may possibly be that from Teynton which was got for the cloister in 1509-10.

On ascending to the gallery, which is now approached by a modern staircase at the north-west angle, we find that the rooms were entered through doorways arranged like those below. The details of the stone-work have unfortunately been all destroyed or hidden behind modern panelling. Both sets retain their original doors of oak, studded with iron nails, and some have their ancient iron handles as well1.

We will now examine the Hall. It is 82 feet long by 32 feet broad, and raised upon a vaulted cellar, as directed in the Will, so that the floor is 8 feet 6 inches above that of the cloister. It is built of Kentish rag on the south side, next the brewhouse yard, and is faced with Caen stone on the north side. There are an oriel and five buttresses on the former side, but there is neither the one nor the other, nor any trace of them, on the latter, where the wall is plain, subdivided by shallow pilasters, and pierced by four narrow oblong windows close to the ground. These admit light to the cellar, which is approached through a lofty pointed doorway (S, fig. 16). Close to this a steep flight of steps rises to the level of the Hall floor through a wide pointed arch. The steps are later than the arch, which has been cut away to receive them. An examination of the south side shews that the original stone-work terminates at exactly the same level along the entire wall (fig. 32), the buttresses being all abruptly truncated, and the windows cut off at half their intended height. An examination of these-one of which is here drawn (fig. 31)-shews that the remaining portion exactly resembles the lower half of the windows in the adjoining buildings which have been described above, with the addition of cusps, which may once have existed in the others also. The arches over them have been finished in plaster-work, and the

1 [One of the doors on the first floor has the College swan-mark engraved upon it, as though the apartment had been assigned to the swan-herd.]