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The Records of St John's College
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The Hall

Prints and postcard showing the interior of the Hall, including the Hall freshly decorated and laid for a dinner.

College Chapel: Photographs

Negatives, transparencies and prints of the interior, exterior and various features of the Chapel including floor tiles, the Chapel screen, the stained glass windows, furniture and fittings, items from the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments photographic records, the Chapel viewed from First Court, Gargoyles and Statues, the Chapel Tower, the Chapel after restoration, views of Cambridge from the Chapel, and George Gilbert Scott's plans of the west elevation of the Chapel.

General Photographs: College Chapel

Photographs covering the Chapel in general. Includes repairs and views of the interior and exterior. Includes a series of prints joined and mounted on two cards, showing the floor tiles on the altar steps in detail.

First Court and Great Gate

Photographs, slides and negatives of the Front Gate and First Court including general views; restoration and building works of the interior and exterior; the refurbished Wordsworth Room; graffiti and inscriptions uncovered during restoration works.

Great Gate and First Court: Restoration

Includes: prints and slides showing restoration projects carried out on the Great Gate and in First Court such as lead roof and chimney repairs; refurbishment of the Old Treasury; replacement of the flagpole; Great Gate and turret restoration; and repair/restoration work on Kitchen Lane; dormer of First Court E staircase; repairs to stonework and doorways.

Great Gate and turret restoration

Black and white prints of restoration work undertaken on the Great Gate during the rebuilding of its turrets.
Shows details of

  • Cracked masonry
  • Excised timbers
  • Reinforcing girders
  • Bell in the bell turret
  • Front of College
  • Kitchen Lane back gates
    Some have been annotated with measurements and notes on reverse.

General restoration

Photographs and slides of general restoration work taking place on the Great Gate and in First Court.
Includes:

  • 8 colour prints of building work on Kitchen Lane. Taken by Roger Jordan, Deputy Superintendent of Buildings (27th March 1991)
  • 3 colour prints and 1 black and white print of dormer on east range of First Court E (c. 1977-80?)
  • 2 colour slides of repair to stonework of the Front Gate and First Court. Taken by Dr R. E. Glasscock (29 July 2008)
  • 3 black and white prints of doorways in First Court. Taken by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (3rd December 1996)
  • 1 colour print of bricked up fire place during alterations to the Porter’s Lodge, B Staircase, First Court. Taken by Colin Shepherd, Head Porter (Sept/Oct 2002)
  • Album of proposed work on brickwork and battlements (March 1935)

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments

Restoration of Kitchens

Includes: 23 prints of the restoration of the kitchen range and rooms above (c. 1960-1961) showing details of roof beams, rafters and wood deterioration; also includes a B&W print of the west face of the kitchen after restoration and 13 colour prints of the newly refurbished interior of the College Kitchen (1994).

Edward Leigh, Cambridge (Photographer)

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