Identity area
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GC/DOM/PD/05
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- 1834-1994 (Creation)
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1 drawer
Context area
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
97.057 - Plans for twentieth century projects were transferred to the Archive from the Domestic Bursar's Office, 1997.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
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.
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Related units of description
Plans of the Waterhouse alterations to the Chapel are kept as part of the larger collection of Waterhouse drawings of Tree Court (PD/01/01). A building account book for the Waterhouse works also survives as part of the Bursary records (BUR:F).