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This was built by Basil Champneys in 1878-9 following a competition in 1876. Pevsner describes it as early Tudor, ‘the treatment lively and not at all pedantic, staircases at both ends, each an intricate play of stone shafts and vaults – forerunners of Champneys’ Rylands Library at Manchester.’
When the foundations were being dug, the ground was found to be full of skeletons of bodies thrown in at the time of the Black Death, mid 14th cent.
Thomas Hammond, 50, curator, b Surrey
Ann, 45, b Fulham
Frederick, 16, clerk to robemaker, b Cambridge
Thomas, 14, apprentice to chemist, b Cambridge
Thomas Hammond, 70, custodian, b Surrey
Annie Chapman, 44, housekeeper, b Cambs
Frederick Harris, 45, attendant Cambridge University, b Oxford
Louisa, 45, b Cambridge
Selwyn Divinity School
Canon Henry Barclay Swete DD, Regius Professor of Divinity
Frederick Harris, attendant
J F Miller and Sons, Wine Vaults
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