Statement of Proceedings Towards the Establishment of King's College with Plans, Copy of the Charter, &C

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. 1830. Excerpt: ... EXPLANATORY REFERENCE TO THE PLAN. The plans facing the title-page shew the proposed distribution of the different parts of the interior of the structure. A spacious chapel will occupy the centre on the first floor, calculated to provide sittings for upwards of 800 students, its length being 72 feet, and breadth 52. Under it will be a public hall of similar dimensions for examinations and other public occasions. The Lecture-rooms will be of different forms and sizes, so as to afford accommodation in the best manner that can be foreseen for the purposes to which they will be applied, and for the different classes which may occupy them. The number of pupils of the higher department, which these Lecture-rooms are calculated to contain, is about 2,000. The rooms intended for the lower department occupy the Northern portion of the building on a lower story, and they will be of sufficient extent to receive, conveniently, at least 400 pupils. Rooms for refreshments, under proper regulations, will be attached to each department. An extensive suite of rooms, on the first floor, will be appropriated to the library of the College, and to the museums, collections of natural history, and science, connected with the various departments which will form the course of studies. The buildings of the College next the river will complete the east wing of the south or river front of Somerset House, corresponding with the present west wing. In this part of the new structure will be provided the residence for the Principal of the College, and several apartments for the Professors; there will also be a suite of apartments for Professors, extending along the whole western front of the building, on the second story. The western front of the College is exhibited in the annexed eleva...