Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...such force that in 1822 an unfortunate boy who chanced to fall into this unsavoury tide was drowned, and a tablet commemorates the fact on one of the southern buttresses of Chapel " as a warning to incautious youth to avoid that element which caused him his death and so much grief and sorrow to his friends." The kitchen is a square building, the lower walls of which were built at the same time as the Hall. In 1507, however, Lupton began his series of rebuildings by removing the roof and constructing what was called " the Upper Kitchen "--in other words, the great octagonal lanthorn which now surmounts it. Of the original building there are considerable remains. The south-west angle suggests that, at any rate, those of its faces that looked away from College and were thus seen by travellers on the high-road were built of stone to a height of some 8ft., whence brick continued it to the roof. Its north-western angle and its north face remain unaltered. These are of brick only, as being screened by Chapel and Hall; the north wall rises in corbie-steps to a chimney-surmounted gable. As to its actual date we cannot be quite certain, but in 1448 there is a note of the removal of the kitchen and the completion of the bakehouse, though the Will puts both of these offices in what is now Weston's Yard. In 1449, however, the number of bricks specially made in the Royal kiln at Slough rose from 60,000 to 123,000, which may indicate the construction of the kitchen; and in 1451 the clerk of the works went into Kent to choose stone for paving the floor. Whatever the date, there is no THE HALL AND KITCHEN. 19 reason to suppose that the great fireplaces have changed much, or that they were ever open up to the pointed relieving arches which take the weight...
