Subseries 08 - Plans and drawings of St. Michael's and St. Mary's Courts, Market Hill and Rose Crescent

In 1887 the College acquired the houses on the south side of Rose Crescent and converted them into College rooms. These were demolished in 1901 to make way for a building by Sir Aston Webb and Ingress Bell. St, Michael's Court, as this area surrounding St. Michael's church became known, was extended in 1934-6. J. Murray Easton was employed to demolish the old buildings on the north side of the Market Square and replace them with a building stretching from Rose Crescent to St. Mary's Court. The ground floor frontage onto Rose Crescent was substantially refitted in 1979-80 to allow for commerical development. The surviving plans cover each stage of these building and redevelopment programmes, as well as a model for an unrealised scheme to locate the College Library in St. Michael's Court.

The College's block of property around St. Michael's Church is completed by a number of properties on the corner of Market Hill and Trinity Street. Known as St. Mary's Court, these properties, like St. Michael's Court, offer commerical accommodation at street level, and College rooms on the upper floors.

(For further information regarding these buildings, see the Biographical History, volumes IV, VI and VIII)