Homerton College and its Buildings
The Hall is the largest of its type in Cambridge with an atmosphere worthy of Harry Potter. It has all the elements of a traditional medieval dining hall with raised dais, screens passage, trumpeter's gallery and buttery-pantry doors. Stern portraits in gilded frames stare down from its walls topped by a gothic clerestory. Additions in the Arts and Craft style extend yet further the long south axis. These date from 1903 and 1914; the latter being described in Pevsner's Buildings of England as 'specially nice'.
The octagonal tower stairs at Homerton were completed in 1881. Modelled on
the Butterfield tower at Rugby School, it was so expensive that it
effectively halted all other building on the site. In 1884 it was described
as being - 'after the fashion of a game of dominoes in the Elizabethan
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