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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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Catharine Hall is fituated between

Queens College on the weft, and Trompington-ftreet on the eaft. The principal front is on dieweft, oppollte to Queens, and is one of die moftextenfive and regular in the Univcrfity. The en-trance ©f the College on this fide, is through a co-vered arch or portico, that leads into a court, about180 feet long, and 120 broad.

The Chapel, on the north fide of the court, is afine piece of architecture, built chiefty of brick ;but the door-cafe, window-frames, and coins, offtone. This Chapel, including the Ante-Chapel, isabout feventy-five feet long, thirty broad, and thirty-fix in height, finely beautified and adorned; and inthe Ante-Chapel is a noble monument of whitemarble, eredted by Sir VViiliam Dawes, Archbifhopof York, in memory of his Lady.

The Hall is about forty-two feet long and twenty-four broad, and of a proportionable heighth, ele-gantly ftuccoed; over this and the Combination-

Room,