Description: The Congregational College was designed by the prolific Nottingham architect; T C Hine. Thomas Chambers Hine was born in London in 1813, the eldest son of hosiery manufacturer Jonathan Hine. In 1834, Hine completed his architecture training in London and moved to Nottingham. In 1848, he won a national competition to design a pair of agricultural workers' cottages and published a monograph (MS 575/3) containing a specification and designs for them. Important commissions followed including the Nottingham Corn Exchange (1849-1850) in Thurland Street, a factory for Hine and Mundella Ltd (1851) in Station Street, and the rebuilding of Ogston Hall, Derbyshire (1851-1864) and Flintham Hall, Nottinghamshire (1851-1857). Hine was as versatile as he was prolific and applied a variety of styles to the many houses, hospitals, schools, churches and railway stations that he designed in the East Midlands. Hine's later projects included the rebuilding and renovation of the castle, shire hall, and courts in Nottingham. He was in partnerships with William Patterson in the 1830s and 1840s, Robert Evans until 1867, and finally, his son George Thomas Hine. T.C. Hine was also an enthusiastic building conservationist, lecturer on archaeology and architecture, and was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1876. He died in Nottingham in 1899. This view is of the South East aspect. The building was later used by the Institute for the Deaf. This particular view is an engraving by Orlando Jewitt. Orlando Jewitt was a self-taught wood engraver (under the guidance of his father) and by the age of sixteen produced the illustrations for a book by his elder brother 'The Wanderings of Memory'. He illustrated several books of local topography including a magazine 'The Northern Star' (1817) of which his father was editor. The family settled at Duffield in 1818 where Orlando continued with illustrations for local histories and children's books. In 1829 Orlando Jewitt did the illustrations for Matthew Bloxam's 'Principles of Gothic Architecture' and from then on he became the principal illustrator for the many books on Gothic Architecture then being published, especially by the Oxford publisher and bookseller John Henry Parker. This resulted in his move to Headington, near Oxford, in 1838, where he continued to work almost exclusively for Parker. In the 1850s he undertook work of a more miscellaneous nature, possibly of a result of Parker's declining health and his pending retirement. At about the beginning of 1857 Orlando Jewitt moved to London, taking several of his staff and a younger brother with him. He continued to illustrate architectural works and also books on natural history and at the time of the onset of his fatal illness he was engraving an illustration for Robert Burn's 'Rome and the Campagna' (1871). He died on Sunday 30 May 1869 at his house and business premises in Camden Square, London. He was buried in Paddington Old Cemetery. His widow, Phoebe, died on 11 March 1883.