Cambridge Colleges

A round lawn, Milton's mulberry trees and a Modernist 'Typewriter' behind a Tudor gate.

A modernist science-and-technology college set up as a national memorial to Winston Churchill, with sculpture on a 50-acre campus.

The second-oldest surviving college, with Cambridge's oldest bridge and a view of King's.

A small graduate college of the 1960s, built as an institute for advanced study, with Grade II* listed original buildings.

Founded by the town's guilds in 1352, with a 14th-century court and the Parker Library.

A neo-classical college of 1800 around a great open lawn, with a door from Number 10.

A former Dominican friary with a Wren chapel, a friars' pool and free daily entry.

A 1960s modernist college built around a Regency manor house, with potager gardens and lawns you may walk on.

The first women's college in Cambridge, set in red-brick Waterhouse buildings and fifty acres of grounds.

A 1348 foundation refounded in 1557, with three symbolic gates and the oldest purpose-built college chapel still in use.

A college rooted in religious dissent and teacher training, with a Victorian Gothic hall and 25 acres of grounds on Hills Road.

A Victorian teacher-training college for women, now a mature-student college beside Fenner's cricket ground.

A former nunnery with the oldest university building still in use and a walled 'Chimney' entrance.

Henry VI's college, with its Chapel, its choir and the lawn running down to the Backs.

A 1960s college founded by women academics, set among converted 19th-century villas on the western edge of the centre.

A riverside college founded for Benedictine monks, home of Samuel Pepys's library and a Stirling Prize-winning new building.

A Grade II* listed 1960s concrete campus with the Dome dining hall, the Women's Art Collection and free daily entry.

A women's college of Queen Anne red brick and long gardens, whose gardens are open to visitors on most days.

Cambridge's third-oldest college, with its first Wren chapel and a plaster-ceilinged Old Library.

Cambridge's oldest college, with a 13th-century hall, a Laudian chapel and a 1940s modernist court.

A handmade-brick college of the 1970s, Grade II* listed, wrapped around a walled mosaic of Victorian gardens.

A Victorian memorial college in golden Ketton stone and red brick, with large lawns and a Wren-linked dining hall.

A small college with a friary's cellars, a rococo hall and Cromwell's connection.

An open three-sided court on Trumpington Street, and the stables behind 'Hobson's choice'.

A college of Catholic origins for mature and graduate students, with a Grade II listed Gothic Revival chapel.

A Tudor college on both banks of the Cam, with a gate, a hall and the Bridge of Sighs.

Henry VIII's merged foundation, with the Great Gate, Great Court and Wren Library.

A graduate and mature-student college with no High Table, a 24-hour library and gardens that open to the public in summer.

A graduate college on the Cam, built around the Darwin family home, with islands, a millpond and a lecture series.

A complete medieval college across the river, with the Mathematical Bridge.

A 1350 foundation on the river with a chained library and an award-winning music building.