Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...and contains windows opening into the chief bedrooms. At the lower part of the chapel is a small sacristy, which is intended to be fitted up with every convenience. Attached to the infirmary is a kitchen for immediate requirements, but in case it should be necessary a covered communication is secured with the principal kitchen of the college. The building also contains distinct apartments for the chaplain, so that during any infectious illness a priest would devote his entire time to the students, and have no connection with the students in the college. The museum next claims our attention. It is a magnificent room, 180 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 18 feet high. It is divided into fourteen compartments by means of framed and wrought principals. These compartments are again subdivided by wrought and moulded ribs, at the intersection of which small centres are placed. Every other compartment is occupied with a three light window, below which the cases containing antiquities will eventually be arranged. This building is extremely simple both in the exterior and interior, and derives its effect from the grandeur of its size and justness of its proportions. The building terminating the museum is somewhat different in character, and is much more elaborate than the rest of the structure. It contains a bay window, plinth, buttresses, elaborate mouldings, chaste and symmetrical tracery; in short on this work the architect, Mr. Pugin, appears to have made his greatest effort, and we cannot but admit that he has achieved a great success. From this point a connecting cloister runs westward to the schools, and enters the eastern end of the main cloister, 200 feet long. This is the main artery of the new schools. On the first turn to the right, ..