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- Pre-Foundation 1685-1800
- Downing’s Early Architectural History
- Downing College in The 1900s
- The 21st Century and Beyond
Downing College was founded by Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet. Much of the family's wealth was generated in the 17th century through the governmental career of his grandfather Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet, who served Cromwell and Charles II as well as building 10 Downing Street, the London home of the Prime Minister. Sir George was born at East...
By this point the fortune which should have been used to found and maintain the College was so depleted, and the estates so neglected, that Downing began life poverty-stricken and with poor prospects. Because of this, development of the College buildings has been slow. They were built on Pembroke Leys, a 30-acre area of small fields lying between R...
No further construction took place until 1931 when four residential blocks were built to the design of Sir Herbert Baker, in line with the East and West Ranges. Baker opted for a Roman-inspired design over Wilkins' Greek. The laboratories which the University built on former Downing land to the north, now known as the ‘Downing Site’, were still vis...
The Singer Building, opened in the bicentenary year of 2000, has provided much-needed graduate accommodation. 2007 saw the restoration of the Hall to its original Georgian splendour. In 2010 the south side of the Howard Court was completed with the Howard Theatre, designed again by Quinlan Terry and his son, Francis. The Georgian-style auditorium, ...
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Images. Extracts from the original, signed Founder’s will (The National Archives, ref. DEL 10/118) Portraits of Sir George Downing, 3rd Bt, and Mary Forester (The Master, Fellows, and Scholars of Downing College in the University of Cambridge) Sources.
Mar 16, 2023 · Downing College, Cambridge Constructed from branches of a historic cedar tree at Downing College, felled due to disease in 2021. Fabrication made possible through a donation from The Howard Foundation.
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Jun 21, 2024 · William Wilkins' Downing College was a remarkably spacious conception of orderly groups of buildings in a landscape setting, with an impressive axial view from the N. columniated entrance-gate, or 'Propylaeum', of the hexastyle portico of the Chapel range southward across the extensive quadrangle.
