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of the area now covered by Scott's Chapel at St. John's. 

 The old chapel stood till 1869 and the Master's Lodge 

 then occupied the north end of the Hall and the north 

 side of the second court. The new Lodge near to Magda- 

 lene College was only erected in 1863, and in Newton's 

 student-days a lane known as St. John's Lane ran from 

 St. John's Street along the north side of the College to 

 a small hythe which abutted on the river, close to the 

 west end of the Library of St. John's. 



Holy Sepulchre had recently been ' restored ' by 

 the Cambridge Camden Society, to the despair of all 

 later archaeologists, and the opportunity was probably 

 then taken of removing the wall which, as an old print 

 shows, shielded the Round Church from, the vulgar gaze. 

 A little way beyond Newton's College stood in his 

 student-days the old Church of St. Giles. ' It is not 

 improbable that this is the parent parish of Cambridge," 

 writes Mr. T. D. Atkinson. We must never forget that 

 Cambridge in origin was over the river, although the 

 only " transpontine " College as a late Master of Trinity 

 designated Magdalene was that to which Newton 

 belonged. The Church, even after being restored by 

 the ingenious Professor Farish, retained many features 

 of interest, and it is a great pity that it was destroyed 

 when the present plain, one might even say ugly, edifice 

 was erected in 1875. 



The College which Newton joined in 1849 was some- 

 what different from the Magdalene of to-day. A year 

 or two before his "coming up," the " Cambridge Guide ' 

 describes the outer of its two courts as ' ' very neatly 

 stuccoed and sashed and from the walls having been 

 lately surmounted by an open parapet the whole presents 

 an air of great neatness and elegance." ' The chapel is 

 about 50 feet long, 18 broad ; it is fitted up in an ex- 

 ceedingly neat and pleasing manner, and has a curious 



