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Memorabilia Cantabrigiae, or, an account of the different colleges in Cambridge : biographical sketches of the founders and eminent men; with many original anecdotes... / by Joseph Wilson
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fide is a lofty elegant building faced with ftone, fromthe upper part of which there is an extenfive pro-fpeft, taking in Gogmagog Hills, &e. ThisEuilcling contains fix grand apartments.

Chapel.]The Chapel is a fine Building,having in the Gallery at the weft end an organ,given by Sir Horatio Mann; at the eaft, ftands avery handfome altar-piece of Norway oak, overwhich is a window of fine painted glafs, containingthe Hiftory of our Saviours Crucifixion betweenthe two Thieves, the figures almoft as large as life.This Chapel was built by contribution, in 1632;but Matthew Wren , Bilhop of Ely, and thenMafter of the College , was at the chief expenceof it*.

Garden.]There Is a Grove fouth of theCollege , and a large Garden beyond, it, with veryfine fruit, and a Cold Bath.

* See fome'verfes fpoken on the Confecration of thraChapel, 17th of March, 163-1, previous to the commence-ment of the fervice, by Craihaw, printed then in a fmgleflieet, and afterwards publiflied among his Poems, intitled, Votiva domus Petrenfis pro domo dei, beginning,

Ut magis in Mundi votis, aviumque querelis,

Jam veniens folet. effe dies, ubi cufplde prima,Palpitat- ... .

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