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Excerpt from Modern College, Blackheath: Being the Tenth Monograph of the London Survey CommitteeBuildings of the infirmary type continued to be built in the 15th century, but with the Reformation they gave way finally to the quadrangle. A number of interesting examples date from the reigns of Elizabeth and James I., and in them can be Studied many variations in the grouping of the common-rooms, the chapel, and the living rooms. Leicester's Hospital, Warwick the almshouses at Cobham and the Whitgift Hospital, Croydon (both the three hospitals built by the Earl of Northampton at Clun, Castle Rising, and Greenwich (1613 Coningsby Hospital, Hereford Sack Ville College, East Grinstead, and Abbott's Hospital, Guildford (both are among the more important. Jesus Hospital, Bray, and Penrose Almshouses, Barnstaple are two fine examples at the beginning of Charles I.'s reign. In one way or another, they all Show a tendency to retain the old medieval character, although in their de tail, and to a certain extent in their general grouping, they conform to the new canons of the Renaissance.In the period known as the later Renaissance, following the Common wealth, architecture assumed under Sir Christopher Wren's guidance a more rigidly classical character. Almshouses formed of grouped buildings, or an assemblage of dwellings in one block, became more frequent, but the quadrangular tradition persisted. Chelsea Hospital, the largest of these works carried out by Wren, consists in the main of an open or threeosided court, and Trinity Hospital, Mile End the subject of the London Survey Committee's first monograph, and a building also ascribed to Wren - encloses a court, the front of which has an elaborate screen wall, and the further Side is occupied by a de tached chapel.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.