Editing Trinity College, Oxford (section)

===Garden Quadrangle===
In a letter dated June 22, 1665, kept in the Trinity College Archives, [[Christopher Wren]] wrote back to the President of the College, [[Ralph Bathurst]] that it would be 'lame one... like a threelegged table' in response to Bathurst's suggestion of an open Quadrangle be put up to allow the view of the Fellows' Garden. 

During Wren's absence in Paris, the construction of the initial freestanding building - two-storied accommodation block with a mansard roof (the first one in Oxford) was put up under the direction of Oxfordshire stonemason family, the Townsends between 1665-1668. The west side was added to the same plan in 1682.<ref name="VCH Trinity College"/> The mansard roof was pulled down and replaced with the addition of a third storey as the population of Trinity College students grew.

In its current state, the Garden Quad remains faithful to Bathurst's original intentions and the addition of the central block, completing the open air quadrangle was probably inspired by William Byrd's Garden Quadrangle at [[New College, Oxford]] completed between 1682-1702.