Clare College Memorial Court

CLARE COLLEGE MEMORIAL COURT

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1115639
Date first listed:
10-May-1962
List Entry Name:
Clare College Memorial Court
Statutory Address:
CLARE COLLEGE MEMORIAL COURT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1115639
Date first listed:
10-May-1962
Date of most recent amendment:
02-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:
Clare College Memorial Court
Statutory Address 1:
CLARE COLLEGE MEMORIAL COURT
Statutory Address 2:
CLARE COLLEGE MEMORIAL COURT, QUEENS ROAD

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CLARE COLLEGE MEMORIAL COURT
Statutory Address:
CLARE COLLEGE MEMORIAL COURT, QUEENS ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
Cambridge (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TL 44301 58417

Details

CLARE COLLEGE
1.
942
Memorial Court
TL 4458 16/255A 10.5.62.
II*
2.
Built between 1922 and 1933 as a Memorial of the 1914-18 War. Architect,
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. A court of nine sides, open on the west. Grey
brick with a pantile roof. The principal block is the east wing. Through
the centre is a round-headed rusticated archway enclosing fluted columns
with an opening in the head of the arch. Block of 3 storeys and 9 windows
on each side of this ending in L-shaped end portions of lower elevation,
2 storeys and 3 windows, the end window bays flanked by fluted columns.
Behind, quarter octagonal sections lead to longer parallel wings running
east-west.


Listing NGR: TL4430158417


This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 13 January 2017.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
47116
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 13 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/66385
War Memorials Online, accessed 13 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/181554

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 5 Cambridgeshire,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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