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General plans and service layouts for Tree Court, Caius Court, Gonville Court and St. Michael's Court and of services - including gas, water, electricity, fire hydrants, historical layouts, buildings of special architectural or historic interest.

Roll contains 1985 survey, copies of 1st and 2nd floor drawings

The building was conceived by C.R. Cockerell for the University in the 1830s as part of a grander scheme to replace the Old Schools. With periodic adaptations, the building housed part of the University Library, and later the Seeley Historical Library and the Squire Law Library. In 1988, the building was acquired on a long-term lease for the College. The interior was overhauled by Donald Insall and Associates to provide accommodation for the College's working library, early printed books, manuscripts, archive and computer facilities in 1996. The plans for this redevelopment and plans of the building at the point at which it was acquired by the College constitute the larger part of this fonds. Also included are designs for an unrealised project to install a new stained glass window in the upper library.

(For further information regarding the history and redevelopment of the Cockerell Building, see The Caian, 1996; Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College Volume VIII; and the Caius and Cockerell booklet.)

The College Chapel has existed on the same site in the College since the 1390s, although subsequent alterations disguise the original structure. The Chapel was extended in 1637, and refaced in 1718. An apse was added by Alfred Waterhouse in 1870, and a bell tower erected. A new organ by Johannes Klais of Berlin ws installed in 1981.

(For additional information regarding the architectural history of the Chapel, see Volumes III, VII and VIII of the Biographical History of Caius, and Christopher Brooke's History of the College)

The surviving plans of the Chapel document nineteenth and twentieth century surveys and alterations.

Rolls comprise market Hill and Rose Crescent

The site is part of one of the College's ancient estates, the demesne of Mortimer's Manor, Newnham, which was given to the College by Anne Scroope in 1498 and enclosed in 1803. After enclosure, plots of land were let on building leases from 1820 onwards, which resulted in the building of a number of private villas, including Springfield. Springfield was originally built for J. Eaden, and brought back into College hands after the Second World War. The rear of the building was converted into the Mrs Cameron Day Nursery in 1998/9. The plans reflect the original construction of the building for private use and its subsequent alteration by the College.