1845.] 



THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 



3«9 



TABLE OF 

 COLLEGIATE AND OTHER HALLS. 



In some of ttie various notices of the New Dining Ihill of Lincoln's 

 Inn which have lately appe.ired, one or two other structures if the 

 kind have been referred tu by way of comparison, and for the purpose 

 of tlierehv affording a better idea of its magnitude, and showing what 

 rank it is entitled to hold on that account alone, independently of its 

 architectural merits. We have endeavoured to improve upon the 

 liint so thrown out, by drawing up a tolerably full list or table of the 

 principal " Halls," with the addition of one or two that are now in 

 ruins, and also a few modern banquetting or other public apart- 

 ments, which rival or approach the others in spaciousness. We 

 have given them precedence, not according to chronology, but ac- 

 coriling to their respective knglhs, as being the simplest and most 

 convenient arrangement. Their united dimensions, (length and 

 breadth), or areas in square feet, are exhibited in the fourth column 

 of the table. These areas, it should be observed, include the space 

 behind the screen (wlif-re there happens to be one,) at the lower end 

 of the hull, but is exclusive of oriels. 



The third column is incomplete, for we have not been able to state 

 the height of the hall in every instance: neither is it just now in our 

 power to fill »p the last column of particulars, as could be wished. 

 Probably some of the readers and correspondents of the Journal will 

 ml in supplying deficiencies, or will correct such inaccuraci«s as 

 they may happen to discover, for, though we have been at no sm.iU 

 pains to ensure exactness, errors, though unimportant ones, there may 

 nevertheless be; or, should they be able to furnish information as to 

 the examples here omitted, the communication of it will be a favour. 



This Table might be considerably extended, not only by other home 

 examples, but by several foreign ones also. We give, however, 

 only one or two of the latter, as deserving notice, on account of their 

 extraordinary vastness as single rooms when roofs are not supporleil 

 by any columns. 



W. H. L, 



Westminster Hall 

 Christ's Hospital 



St. George's, Windsor Castle 

 Guildhall, London 

 Lincoln's Inn, New Hall 

 Christ Church, Oxford 

 Arundel Castle 

 Trinity College, Cambridge 

 Hatnptoa Court 



Middle Temple 



Lamheth Palace (now the Library) 



Waterloo Hall, or Gallery, Windsor 



Raby Castle 



Watiham College, Oxford 



New College, Oxford 



Lincoln's Inn, Old Hall 



Gray's Inn 



Crosby Hall 



Warwick Castle 



Bishop's Palace, Wells 



Richmond Palace 

 Ragland Castle 

 Croydon Palace 



238 

 187 



180 

 153 

 120 

 115 

 115 

 110 

 106 



95 

 90 

 82 

 78 

 71 

 68 

 69 

 62 

 115 



100 



64 



38 



Breadth. Height, 



16184 

 9537 



5760 

 6840 

 5400 

 4600 

 4025 

 4400 

 4240 



4400 



3594 

 4370 

 3240 

 2870 

 2730 

 2272 



1863 

 2170 

 6785 



Ime timber roof, large window at N. and S. end, and windows on sides. 

 A Hattish ceding, with arched timber beams. Windows (nine) only on 



south side. Screen at east end. 

 A tlattish arch ceiling, (nine) windows on south side. 

 Partly modernized. Large window at E. and W. ends. 

 Fine timber roof. Two oriels, E. and W , at N. end. 

 Fiae timber roof. Oriel. Two lire-places. 



Timber roof. Two oriels. 



Fine timber roof. (Five) windows on N. and S. sides, and oriel at S. E. 



angle. Screen at VV. end. 

 Rich timber roof, in Elizabethan style. Oriel on N. and S. tides, at W. 



end. Screen at E. end. 

 Timber rnof. Oriel on W. side. 

 Style partaking of Elizabethan. Clerestory. 



Timber roof. 

 Oriel on N. side. 

 Restored. 



See Pugin's Gothic Examples. Second Series. 



DESTROYED OR IN RUINS. 



3636 



4000 

 1792 

 2128 



Fine timber (chesnut) roof. Two oriels, N. and S. at West end, and £Te 

 other windows on N. and S. sides. 



See Pugin's Gothic Examples, Second Series. 

 Timber roof with plain arches. 



MODERN HALLS. 



St. George's Hall, Liverpool 

 Birminghsm Town Hall 



Exeter Hall, Strand 



Vurk Great Asseuiblv Room 



Wliitohall Banquetting Room, now 



Chapel 

 Victoria Hall or Gallery, New Palace 



of Westminster 

 Freemasons' Hall 

 I gyptian Hall, Mansion House 

 lldiiquetting Hall, Goldsmiths' Hall 



Moscow, Great Exercise House 

 St. Petersburg, Riding House 

 Padua, Salone di Ragioof 



Lighted by lunettes over the entablature. 



Corinthian order in pilasters, with eleven windows between them on cact 

 side. 



Corinthian, in two orders ; lower one forming a peristyle of 44 columns, 

 with 17 intercolumns on each side, and five at each end,— upper one iii 

 pilasters between the windows of the clerestory. 



Eight Corinthian columns on N. and S. sides. 



The Gallery over screen at S. end increases the length to 80 feet. S« 

 Plan, &c., "Civil Engineer," Aug. 1844. 



