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that inspired Cockerell, comes from a stage of transition from a late Mediaeval style to the Renaissance, both, of course, being very different in Scotland. The plan of the build- ing does have decided similarities with that of the 1822 SDC (although the elevation is very different and the whole much grander). The staircases, as at SDC, are set in turrets which are placed on the inner corners of the quad. Also, the chapel is opposite the entrance. See Helmut Petsch, Architecture in Scotland (London, Longman, 1971), p. 72. 58 The Goodchild Album, Reminiscences of my twenty-six years association with Professor C. R. Cockerell, Esqr., is a large scrap-book of drawings, with a few printed cuttings and photographs, collected by J. E. Goodchild, Cockerell's assistant from 1833. It was acquired by Sir Albert Richardson, and is still in the possession of his family. I must record my thanks to Mr. Simon Houfe for enabling me to examine and photograph the album and for showing me many other things from his grandfather's fascinating collection. Sadly, the album contains no documents relating to the SDC building. 59 I refer here to the small sets of domes at the extreme right and left of the scheme and not to the large central domes. 60 See John Summerson, 'Harrow School-I', Country Life (vol. 76, 14July 1924), pp. 36-42, particularly p. 37. 61 See his 1977 Appendix, p. 197. 62 This drawing is reproduced in John B. Hilling's Plans and prospects. Architecture in Wales 1780-1914 (catalogue of a Welsh Arts Council exhibition, 1975), drawing 51, p. 61. 63 See The Recollections of Thomas Graham Jackson 1835-1925, edited by B. H. Jackson (Oxford University Press, 1950), pp. 162, 173 and Price's History, pp. 139, 197. 64 On Killerton Chapel, see Watkin, p. 178-9. Pis. 81, 82. 65 In Wales illustrated in a series of views, published in parts as Jones's Views in Wales, c. 1815-17. 66 See Bryan Little, Abbeys and priories in England and Wales (London, Batsford, 1979), p. 193 and A. Leslie Evans, Margam Abbey (Port Talbot, 1958), p. 26, and illus. opposite p. 34. 67 The notebook, dated 23 July 1806, is in the collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects Library, CoC/9/1. The young Cockerell, in the company of Thomas Daniell, visited Swansea, Neath, Llandeilo, Dynevor Castle and Carmarthen, before touring Pembrokeshire and then moving up the coast to Cardiganshire. 68 This is now filled with a wheel-window, based on one in Bristol, which is part of the Regency work. See Little, work cited Note 66, p. 193 and 147-8. 69 See West Kent and the Weald (Harmondsworth, Penguin 2nd ed., 1976) by John Newman, p. 513; E. M. Dodd, article cited Note 2, p. 110, 112; RIBA Drawings Collection, drawing J 10/9 1-5. 70 Thus he wisely writes: 'Thus, unhampered by considerations of whether a part- icular building was 'Baroque' or 'Neo-Classical' he could dart from one period, place or person to another in pursuit of what Sir John Summerson has called "the Classical language of Architecture" (p. 132). 71 Cockerell's diaries are kept in the library of the Royal Institute of British Architects and are the property of Mrs. B. J. Crichton.