Selections from the Architectural History of the University of Cambridge : Peterhouse

Willis, Robert/ Clark, John Willis

Cambridge University Press（2009/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 120 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780521147149
• DDC分類 727.30942659

Full Description

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.

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.