They project five feet into the cloister, and the mutilation of the moldings of the arch above them was perhaps perpetrated at the same time, in order to obtain the height considered necessary for their accommodation. A new vault was made to the cellar in the same year'.

In 1858 a thorough repair and decoration of the Hall was commenced. A new roof was constructed, but on the main lines of the original design, as a comparison of the Hall in its present state (fig. 37) with any of the older views of the interior will shew. A louvre, ornamented with a profusion of weather-cocks (fig. 32), replaced the older one, of Renaissance character (fig. 2), probably part of Rowland's work in 1720. A large perpendicular window was inserted in the west wall, and fitted with glass by Hardman. The three fire-places, the discovery of which was mentioned in the last chapter, were brought into use. The old panelling was cleaned and repaired, a new screen was placed at the east end, and some elaborate panelwork, surmounted by a richly-carved cornice, and bearing the arms of the successive Provosts, at the opposite end, under the new window. The cost was in the main defrayed by the Rev. John Wilder, Fellow.

KITCHEN. The exterior of this will be understood from the view of its east side (fig. 2) taken in the last century, before the stream that then flowed under it had been diverted. The accounts for 1507-8 recount an extensive repair, amounting almost to a reconstruction; but since that time it has probably been but little altered; and the communication between it and the Hall remains in its old state. Westward of it are the Brewhouse and Bakehouse, which were built, as shewn in the woodcut, in 1714. Their present appearance is slightly different, as they were gutted by an accidental fire, 2 December, 1875, and rebuilt at the beginning of the following year.

LIBRARY. The books belonging to the College were at first placed in the vestry on the north side of the Church, and the charges for them are entered among the other Church accounts,

1 [Audit Book, 1690–91. “Payd Mr Clarke the Mason for making the staires into the Hall, for paving the Hall, and for other Worke.. £132. 9. 0.”]

2

[Reparation Book, 1713-14. College Minute-Book, 15 December, 1875.]

3 [The Audit Book for 1520-21 contains a long and interesting account of the

until the erection of Lupton's Tower, where, as we have seen, the room on the first floor over the Gate, now called Election Chamber, was built for a Library, and the books were moved into it as soon as it was completed. In 1596-7, the year of the election of Sir Henry Savile to the Provostship, the library was moved to a room on the ground floor under the east end of Long Chamber'. The position of it is exactly described in the following extracts from the accounts:

1611-12. "Item paide to John Freland laborer working ij daies. and a halfe in June taking vpp the olde bordes and ioysts in the Chamber betwene the Schole and the librarie and laying the same in the Store howse ....xxd."

1634-35. "To the plumer mending and takeing downe the long spoute betweene the librarie and Mr. Provost's kitchin and making and placeing a new one there 4or daies

....iiij."

1678-79. "Allowed to Mr. Roderick for the finishing of his Chamber in the Old Library under ye Long Chamber

.........20. o. o."

It was again moved in 1675-76%, when a charge occurs "for makeing ye Roome in ye Gallery fitt to receive ye College Liberary and for removeinge and placeinge ye Bookes there." The "roome" was the southern division of the Gallery over the Cloisters, as we learn from Loggan (fig. 19).

In 1720 it was Resolved to build a new Library at ye East end of ye Chappel, and to solicit Benefactions for ye same. The proposed structure, of which the plans and specifications have been preserved, was octagonal, surmounted by a dome. A cloister, with masonry of the Doric order, out of which the Library would have been entered, was to have extended from the S.W. corner of the Fellows' Buildings to the Chapel.

This design having been abandoned, the Provost and Fellows

binding and chaining of the books, which were at that time still in the Church. This will be quoted in the chapter on "Libraries."]

1 [Audit Book, 1596-97. "To Plumer, ridding the haye out of the liberarie ii dayes......Item to John Joyner going to Oxford to view the liberary there, iij. vjd. Ibid. 1598-99. Item to Frances Skydmore for working iiij daies aboute the pales by Mr Provost lodging in the Churchyeard and v daies to sett vpp newe pales by the librarie in the Stableyerde...xs. viijd. [To the Plumber] for altering VI spowtes and ther currants on the north side of the Colledge and the spoutes and currant over the librarie dore xvij daies xvii s."]

2 [It had probably outgrown the space available for books, the purchases being numerous in each year, as the Audit Books shew.]

agreed, 20 December, 1725, "to proceed to ye building of a new Library According to M'. Rowland's Plan1." He was therefore the Architect, and as such received £50 in 1726 for "surveying." A room was hired in Eton to put the books in while the work was proceeding, which was not finished until 1729, as is proved by a charge in the accounts for that year for "washing, dusting and cleaning ye Library and carrying in ye Books." "Mr Moore the Joiner" was paid £455 for the woodwork in 1728, and in 1729 Mr Rowland received £50 “for surveying ye Inside Works of ye Library." No attempt was made to accommodate the style to that of the surrounding buildings, as the view of the south-west corner of the court (fig. 28) shews.

PROVOST'S LODGE. The founder assigned to the Provost, by the 36th Statute, "the chambers to the west of the Hall, together with the Parlour in the same part of the College." This accommodation, however, was not provided until 1517. Before this time, there is a tradition that the Provosts had occupied the rooms at the west end of the north side of the Cloister-court; and from the terms of the contemporaneous record of Provost Lupton's work, quoted in the last chapter, it is possible that some portion of the west side may have been erected before his time. The large Hall, built by him, now called "Election Hall," was intended for the use of the Provost, and is always spoken of as "Mr Provost's Hall." In the reign. of Edward VI., during the Provostship of Sir Thomas Smith, the Lodge was increased by "our master's new seller," "new kitchen," and "a chamber over our master's new seller." These rooms may very possibly be represented by those between the Lodge and Long Chamber. The small enclosure shewn by Loggan (fig. 19) to the north of that range is "Mr. Provost kytchen yearde," mentioned in 1597–98. “Our Master's gallery" is first alluded to in 1548-49, and afterwards frequently occurs in the accounts, with his "lower gallery next his garden.” These occupied the building extending northward from the Lodge, as shewn by Loggan, on the site of which there now stands a more modern building, erected in 1765-66, containing

[Ibid. 1725. The cost was in part defrayed by subscription, Provost Godolphin giving £200.]

Fig. 38. Plan of the first floor of the Provost's Lodge, Eton College.

SCHOOL

YARD

PART OF THE RANCE

CONTAINING

LONG CHAMBER

two drawing-rooms on the first floor, and below, two sittingrooms, formerly called "the garden-parlours." The staircase, by which the Lodge is now approached from the north-west corner

of the Cloister, was made, or extensively repaired, in 1618'. The present entrance from Weston's Yard was made in 1844.

The Provost's Hall was provided with a new roof in 1691,

[Audit Book, 1617-18. Payments are made "for 2000 of bricke to mend the staircase from the cloyster to Mr Prowost's lodging;" for "XLV foote of tymber" and "xxxiiij foot of oken bordes" for the same use; and lastly to a mason ** for cutting the wall for entering the water-tables over Mr Provost's staire-case." The mention of "new-casting the old lead" shews that some staircase existed there previously.]