HOLLOWAY COLLEGE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1549, 28 August 1886, Page 3

HOLLOWAY COLLEGE.

Tha magnificent building erected at Egham in accordance with the will of the late Mr Tbomae Holloway, of pill notoriety, waa opened by the Queen on June 80, Tbe eollege ie intended for the encouragement of advanced education among -women. All applicant! muat be over 17 year* of age. and tbe estimated oo»t pertmpil imow atated to be £6O a year. The huge building at Egbam will accommodate 850 students, allowing each separate rooms. It forma an immense double quadrangle, and is our* rounded by. apeeiona lawns and gardens, covering.in all 95 scree. The atyla of architecture is tbe French renaissance, ted brick and Portland atone being skilfully combined. Immediately facing the entrance ie a lofty and profusely decorated clock tower, proceeding under which the vieitor find* himself in <the ■ gorgeously colored ehapal deiigDed by Signor Fnoigna, an Italian artist, who died juet before the com* pletion of hie work. . Severely simple English, minds will hardly aaaooiata snoh a wealth of color with a place of worship, but as a work of art it commands credit. The walla are covered with an elaborate gold stencilling upon a colored ground } and Biblical characters are represented in bold- relief, of tbe atyla'of' the bhurchee at Rome. Over the altar ii a boldly-painted representation of lha Creation, showing Adam and Eve, whilst round the building are niohee intended to be occupied by figures—but not at present completed—of saints, including St. Patrick Electricity will alone be employed for the lighting of the. chapel, and will indeed bo prevalent throughout the building. Lighter tonaa than those prevailing in the chapel have, perhaps fortunately, bran employed elsewhere. The library and mnseum are striking amtea of rooms, with inlaid floors, carved archways, and panelled roofs. In the recreation hall there is a collection of pictures which alone baa cost upwards of £90,0(0, and it include* such masterpiece* at Landseer’s “Man Proposes, God Dis Sosos,’’ and Millais’ “Princes in the Tower.’ 1 Every modern sanitary appliance ha* been requisitioned in the building, which has cost £600,000, exclusive of the endowment.