Tagged: Architecture

St John's covered Gothic Revival bridge over the Cam, completed in 1831.

The city council's seat on Market Hill, a 1939 Neo-Georgian hall on a site that has served the town since the 1220s.

A Grade II listed English Baroque university building of 1899 by E. S. Prior, with lettering by Eric Gill.

A Grade II listed station at the end of Station Road, opened in 1845 and the busiest in the East of England.

The university's main research library, a legal-deposit giant under a brick tower visible across the city.

A Grade II listed Methodist church of 1914 on Castle Street, with a 1929 Binns organ and a chapel history back to 1823.

A Grade II listed Church of England parish church, consecrated in 1839 and facing south rather than east.

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.

A three-arched stone bridge of 1639-40 at Clare College, often named the oldest bridge still in use in Cambridge.

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 Grade II listed neoclassical council building of 1913-14 on Hobson Street, now student accommodation for Christ's College.

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.

The Grade II* parish church of Grantchester, with 12th-century parts, a Norman font and a screen role in a TV drama.

A Grade II* city-centre church, long associated with the evangelical preacher Charles Simeon.

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 Grade I listed stone bridge of 1819, designed by William Wilkins, on the Backs beside King's College.

A Tudor-era Gothic chapel with a fan vault, Flemish glass and a Rubens above the altar.

A Grade II listed brick-and-metal lecture theatre on the Sidgwick Site, big enough for 500 and used for the Darwin College Lecture Series.

A Grade II* parish church on Trumpington Street that was Peterhouse's chapel until 1632.

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

A timber footbridge at Queens' College that looks like an arch but is built entirely from straight beams.

A Grade II listed Gothic Revival school chapel of 1906, with oak fittings, fourteen windows and a 1920 war memorial.

The University's first science site in the middle of town, where several landmark discoveries were made and two museums now open to visitors.

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

A riverside house of 1793 where the Darwin family lived, now the heart of Darwin College.

The first combined college boathouse in Cambridge, a Grade II listed building of 1958 on the River Cam.

A Grade I Gothic Revival Catholic church of 1885-90 at Hills Road, with a 65-metre spire.

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 Portland-stone hall of the 1720s where Cambridge degrees are conferred, with a roof-top prank in its history.

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

A 1959 concrete river crossing designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, which replaced a cast-iron predecessor.

A Grade II listed city-centre parish church of 1842-43, home to the memorial to Captain Cook's family.

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

A Grade II* medieval parish church on Bridge Street, with a mayor's tombstone of 1329 and an Anglo-Catholic past.

A hidden Grade II* church by the Guildhall, sometimes called the Cradle of the Reformation.

A Grade II* Victorian church of 1875 near Castle Mound, on a site founded in 1092 and open daily to visitors.

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

A Grade II listed church of 1841 by Ambrose Poynter, remembered for the tongue-lashing it received from the Cambridge Camden Society.

A small medieval church by Kettle's Yard, no longer a parish church and cared for by the Churches Conservation Trust.

A former hotel of 1828 on Trumpington Street, once a wartime base for American servicemen.

A working-class Victorian decorator's terraced home, painted by hand in the Arts and Crafts style.

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

A triple-arched stone bridge of 1764-65 carrying Trinity's Avenue across the Cam to the Fellows' Garden.

A Tudor-Gothic college chapel with Pre-Raphaelite-era windows, a Father Smith organ case and a mixed-voice choir.

A Gothic Revival Methodist church of 1913 beside Christ's Pieces, listed Grade II and with Sunday worship.

An eight-storey Aalto-influenced tower of 1963-64 inside the grounds of Peterhouse, listed Grade II.

Christopher Wren's library at the end of Nevile's Court, finished in 1695, with Newton's notes and the Pooh manuscripts on the shelves.

A Saturday arts and crafts market in a small garden on Trinity Street, where everything on sale is handmade.

A Bodley-designed Victorian church opposite Jesus College, cared for by the Churches Conservation Trust and known as the Painted Church.

The University of Cambridge's art and antiquities museum, in a Grade I listed neoclassical building with free entry.

Samuel Pepys's own library, kept in his own bookcases at Magdalene College, currently closed for refurbishment.

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.

A walk through seven stops of the old town, from a round church of about 1130 to Cambridge's oldest college.

Ten stops from King's Parade to the Bridge of Sighs, taking in six colleges, three bridges and the riverside lawns behind them.