NOTICE OF NEW COLLEGE, LONDON. § 1. The Building.—The College is situated half a mile North of the Regent's Park, in the Finchley Road, St. John's Wood, and stands on the SouthWestern slope of the Hampstead Hill. It is designed in the Tudor style of the fifteenth century, the walls throughout being faced with Bath stone. The West front is 240 feet in length, 38 feet high to the parapet, and 44 feet to the ridge, and, in the centre, a massive Tower, 25 feet square, rises to a height of 103 feet above the road. At the Northern end of the building is the Residence of the Principal; in the centre, the College Proper; and, at the South end, the Library. The principal front faces the West; the entrance is in the centre under the tower, and above it is a very elegant oriel window in two stories, filled with tracery and delicately carved. The base mouldings are heavy, and the cornice bold, and enriched throughout with carved pateræ and gurgoyles, natural and grotesque. The East elevation, though simpler, is designed in perfect consistency with the character of the principal front. The entrance hall is 20 feet square, and lined with stone; a door in one angle leads, by the turret staircase, to the upper rooms of the tower. On the East side a broad arch connects it with the corridor, and on the South side are the principal staircase and the Visitors' room. The ordinary entrance is by a Porch on the East side of the building, a little to the North of the tower. The lower Corridor is 162 feet long. At the Northern end are the Principal's Lecture and Retiring Rooms, communicating with his Residence, and proceeding South we pass the Students' Common Room, 40 feet by 20 feet, hat and cloak room, the Hall, Staircase, Mathematical Lecture Room, 28 feet by 20 feet, and two rooms used by the Trustees of the late Mr. Coward, and at the south end is the Library, a handsome room 60 feet long, (in 5 bays,) 24 feet wide, and 44 feet to the ridge of the roof, which is of open-framed timber-work of hammer-beam construction, similar to Westminster Hall, with moulded and carved panelling. The walls are of Caen stone, and at each end of the room is a large six-light window, with four-centred traceried head. The side windows are square-headed, with perpendicular tracery. The fittings are of oak, with carved enrichments. The total length of shelves is about 1500 feet. The Principal Staircase, leading to the first floor, is entirely of stone; it is divided from each of the Corridors by three four-centred stone arches on light moulded piers. On the first floor, over the hall, is the Council Room, and above it, in the tower, are the Philosophical Lecture Room and the Laboratory, which are fitted up with every convenience for chemical and scientific experiments. From the roof of the tower is one of the finest views in the neighbourhood of London, ex |