Calendar: 1880-1881 Page 82

CTIATEL liESTOEATION FUND COMMITTEE Froyn the Council The Lord BUhop of London Chairman The Earl of Harrowby The Kt Hon Gladstone William Bowman Esq From the College Staff The Rev Bam Professor Beale Cunningham Esq Professor Johnson Rev Prof Plumptre From Old Students Dr Arlidpe George Austen Esq Bolton Esq Ε Bowen Esq Rev Canon Farrar Rev Lance Dr Lavies Henrv Lee Esq JE Mackay Esq Rev Cowley Powles Sturges Ear Rev Henry White Rev Wood 1880 The Committee announced in the Calendar for 1873 that it had been ascertained that the expense of finishing the Chapel in accordance with Sir Gilbert Scott's original designs and of completing the Organ satisfactorily would be £3 300 The following works have since been carried out at an actual cost of £2 250 The completion of the Organ The decoration of the Semi-dome The erection of the Reredos The entire remainder of the Wood-carving The Capitals on the Columns The removing of the front row of Stalls to the bottom of the Chapel and the erection of Canopies over them The opening of small window on each side of the Organ The decoration of the walls The debt owing to the Bankers for these works on Julv 1880 was £150 There now remain the ornamentation of the front of the apse and'of the remainder of the chapel and the general com- pletion of the whole which will cost an additional sum of £1 000 and will be shortly carried out With these objects in view they venture still to appeal to the liberality of the members and friends of the College especially of those who have not yet contributed to the Chapel Improvement Fund Contributions wall be received by the Rev Professor Plumptre and Cunningham Esq Honorary Secretaries or may be paid to the account of the King's College Chapel Restoration Fund at Messrs Coutts and Co 's Post-Office Orders should be made payable to John William Cunningham at the Strand Office