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Author: Caroe, W.D.
Title: King’s Hostel. Trinity College, Cambridge. With plans and illustrations. An examination of the history of King’s Hall with special reference to the ancient buildings recently discovered ... A paper read before the Cambridge Archaeological Society, March 2nd, 1908, amplified by numerous additions and extracts from the King’s Hall account books.
Publication: Cambridge, "printed for the Master and Fellows of Trinity College" 1909.
Price: Sold
Reference: 11362
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4to. (8) + 23 + (1)pp, photogravure frontispiece, (12 ) measured drawings and ground plans, lettered A-H, J-M (some double-page), also 26 photo text ills. Twentieth-century cloth. No ownership inscription but Sir Howard Colvin’s copy.
Monograph by the architect William Douglas Caroe (1857-1938), providing an accurate scholarly description of the only surviving mediaeval range of King’s Hall, a precursor of Trinity College, Cambridge, occupying part of the present-day college’s site. Caroe had an extensive domestic and ecclesiastical architectural practice, but combined this with a keen interest in mediaeval buildings, and had been called in by his old college - he had been an undergraduate at Trinity in the 1870s - to investigate and restore this fourteenth-fifteenth century range, renamed King’s Hostel in recognition of its past history.