Editing Trinity College, Toronto (section)

====Dining hall====
The largest component of the western wing, as well as the central dining hall and social space for students residing at Trinity College, Strachan Hall was built in elaborate wood and stone with the intention of matching the aesthetics of the existing college.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Strachan Hall: A Visitor's Guide|last=Lassam|first=Sylvia|publisher=Trinity College Archives|location=Toronto}}</ref> It is replete with decorations intended to extol the history and values of the college, with heraldric artist A. Scott Carter commissioned to execute paintings and carvings of the coats of arms belonging to founder John Strachan, Queen Victoria, St Hilda's College, the Trinity Medical College, Provost Cosgrave, and Gerald Larkin.<ref name=":1" /> Adorning the walls of the Strachan Hall are portraits of the College Provosts, the founder John Strachan, and Sir John Beverley Robinson - Chief Justice of Upper Canada and the college's first chancellor. The largest portraits, which hang from the north wall, are of Bishop Strachan and [[George Whitaker (Canadian educator)|George Whitaker]], the college's first provost from 1852 to 1880.<ref name="Walking" /><ref>{{cite DCB|title=Whitaker, George|first=Christopher Fergus|last=Headon|volume=11|url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/whitaker_george_11E.html}}</ref> Hanging on the front wall prominently behind the High Table is a large medieval tapestry provenant of Gerald Larkin's enthusiastic patronage, believed to have been woven in Flanders in the sixteenth century to depict the coming of the [[Queen of Sheba]] to the court of [[King Solomon]].<ref name="Walking" />