Pembroke agree. I emailed the college, and just got this from the College Registrar, Dr Becky Coombs:
“I would say that this is definitely an image of the medieval Hall at Pembroke. There is a similar photo in the book: Pembroke College, Cambridge. A celebration.”
She has cc’d in the author of the book, Dr A. V. Grimstone, so if I hear any more I’ll post it.
All in all, a spectacular catch by Unwholesome Fen !
“In 1872 it was found that the very old buildings
about the Porter’s Lodge, on the east side of the
Porter’s or smaller court, were in hopeless decay.
Space was wasted by their lack of arrangement, and,
with the exception of one set, the rooms in them were
not good. They were completely pulled down, and the
present buildings put up by A. Waterhouse as architect.
The alterations involved the stopping up of a very steep
staircase which ran up from the larger court, close to
the passage between the two courts. The mark of its
entrance is still clearly seen in the wall. The rooms over
the archway, which had long ago been the old Library,
were approached, among others, by this staircase.
“At the old entrance the main archway had been long
built up and plastered over so as to be scarcely visible.
The old postern-gate was used as an entrance. When
the old building was demolished, Mr. Latham caused
this archway and the postern to be carefully removed
and built up again at the entrance to the garden from
Garret Hostel Lane, where they now stand. Though a
possible entrance from the street was kept under Water-
house’s new building, the Porter’s Lodge was at this
time transferred to its present place, under the archway
leading through Salvin’s buildings into the larger court.
It is an improvement, partly because a person entering
the College is not immediately confronted by the
lodging-house style of architecture of the 1823 building,
partly because this was the natural entrance of the
College for persons going to the kitchens or butteries,
and for those who wanted to come for good or bad pur-
poses to undergraduates’ rooms, and it was well that
they should pass the porter.”
Pembroke agree. I emailed the college, and just got this from the College Registrar, Dr Becky Coombs:
“I would say that this is definitely an image of the medieval Hall at Pembroke. There is a similar photo in the book: Pembroke College, Cambridge. A celebration.”
She has cc’d in the author of the book, Dr A. V. Grimstone, so if I hear any more I’ll post it.
All in all, a spectacular catch by Unwholesome Fen !
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The before-and-after shot of the range of Trinity Hall nearest to Clare College Chapel impressively reduced to rubble
http://www.flickr.com/photos/new_boston_fine_and_rare_books/6773680625/in/set-72157629061594179
http://www.flickr.com/photos/new_boston_fine_and_rare_books/6773681059/in/set-72157629061594179
(Mr Waterhouse at work again) presumably date the series fairly sharply to 1872.
H.E. Malden gives the following account in his 1902 history of Trinity Hall:
http://www.archive.org/stream/trinityhallorcol00maldrich#page/242/mode/2up
“In 1872 it was found that the very old buildings
about the Porter’s Lodge, on the east side of the
Porter’s or smaller court, were in hopeless decay.
Space was wasted by their lack of arrangement, and,
with the exception of one set, the rooms in them were
not good. They were completely pulled down, and the
present buildings put up by A. Waterhouse as architect.
The alterations involved the stopping up of a very steep
staircase which ran up from the larger court, close to
the passage between the two courts. The mark of its
entrance is still clearly seen in the wall. The rooms over
the archway, which had long ago been the old Library,
were approached, among others, by this staircase.
“At the old entrance the main archway had been long
built up and plastered over so as to be scarcely visible.
The old postern-gate was used as an entrance. When
the old building was demolished, Mr. Latham caused
this archway and the postern to be carefully removed
and built up again at the entrance to the garden from
Garret Hostel Lane, where they now stand. Though a
possible entrance from the street was kept under Water-
house’s new building, the Porter’s Lodge was at this
time transferred to its present place, under the archway
leading through Salvin’s buildings into the larger court.
It is an improvement, partly because a person entering
the College is not immediately confronted by the
lodging-house style of architecture of the 1823 building,
partly because this was the natural entrance of the
College for persons going to the kitchens or butteries,
and for those who wanted to come for good or bad pur-
poses to undergraduates’ rooms, and it was well that
they should pass the porter.”