Cloister Court 1842 Cloister Court 1842
This view is towards the south-east, looking at the western elevation of the Hall. The windows of Hall have plain mullions with no tracery, and the old dinner bell tower is shown. All this was to change in 1846: see Rock's print of 1854. Battlements have not yet appeared (about 1857-60).
The windows to the right of Hall are shown cut down in height inside the original arches (they stayed this way until around 1857-60), and this might reflect low ceilings or a mezzanine floor level in the rooms behind. This area of college has been reconstructed so many times that it is difficult now to work out what happened here. At the extreme right is the so-called Erasmus Tower.
A curious error is that the dormer window is missing between the second chimney and the projection for staircase I, an unusual mistake for this very accurate artist. One might have concluded that this dormer did not exist before the changes of 1846, were it not for the fact that a woodcut in the same original publication as this engraving shows the dormer clearly.
Drawn by F. Mackenzie. Engraved by John Le Keux.
Published in Memorials of Cambridge in part form 1837 - 1842.