3-071-291 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The City of London College: the new building in White-Street, Moorfields, 1883. A '...new and commodious building, in Moorfields, Finsbury [in North London...The architectural design is Gothic; the College has accommodation lor as many as four thousand students who annually attend the scores of classes held weekly throughout the greater part of the year. The plans of the architect, Mr. Edward A. Crockett, included class-rooms, laboratory, art and cast rooms, reading-room, council-room, library, and a handsome and spacious hall, in which weekly lectures and entertainments are held. The work has been executed by Mr. J. T. Chappell...The City of London College was established, thirty-five years ago, by the efforts of the Rev. Prebendary Mackenzie and other gentlemen interested in the well-being of the many thousands of young men engaged in offices and houses of business in the City; not only to afford them a place of resort and occupation after business hours, but also for the advancement of their education, and to enable them to obtain improvement in the various branches of science, literature, and art, which might be of service to them in their business or employment'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.