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The Institutional Façade: Architectural Recording at the Old Schools, University of Cambridge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2011

Christopher Evans  and
Joshua Pollard
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The results of architectural recording within the North Range of the University's Old Schools are described. Argued to have stood independently as a hall in the later fourteenth century, the progressive development of the Schools' quadrangle, and extensive alterations to it – culminating in Wright's neo-classical facade of 1754–58 – reflects upon the historical development of academic architecture. The prestigious display of the complex in the mid eighteenth century, facilitated through the mass levelling of domestic properties, equally tells of the institutional ‘realization’ of the University.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 79 , September 1999 , pp. 213 - 243
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1999

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