Emmanuel College, Buildings Surrounding Front and New Courts and the Brick Building
EMMANUEL COLLEGE, BUILDINGS SURROUNDING FRONT AND NEW COURTS AND THE BRICK BUILDING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1332193
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Emmanuel College, Buildings Surrounding Front and New Courts and the Brick Building
- Statutory Address:
- EMMANUEL COLLEGE, BUILDINGS SURROUNDING FRONT AND NEW COURTS AND THE BRICK BUILDING
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1332193
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Emmanuel College, Buildings Surrounding Front and New Courts and the Brick Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- EMMANUEL COLLEGE, BUILDINGS SURROUNDING FRONT AND NEW COURTS AND THE BRICK BUILDING
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- EMMANUEL COLLEGE, BUILDINGS SURROUNDING FRONT AND NEW COURTS AND THE BRICK BUILDING
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 45235 58308
Details
EMMANUEL COLLEGE 1. 942 Buildings surrounding Front and New Courts, and the 'Brick' Building. TL 4558 SW 7/259 26.4.50. I 2. Front Court West Range 1769-75. By James Essex. Ionic tetrastyle portico with entrance gateway flanked by higher ranges. Ashlar, the east front has an arcaded walk of 11 bays. Plain contemporary interior features. Iron gate 1775. East Range and Chapel 1668-77. By Christopher Wren. Cloister with gallery over and Chapel behind. Ashlar. The Chapel interior has very fine contemporary woodwork designed by Pierce and Oliver and made by Cornelius Austin. Organ case circa 1730. Reredos 1687 with painting by Jacopo Amigoni 1734. Fine plaste ceiling by John Grove. The Cloister Gallery is lined with contemporary bolection moulded panelling. North range and Hall Part of the Founder's Buildings of 1584-89 but including earlier work from the Friary of C14 date, and much altered in C18 and later. Ketton stone ashlar. Facing by James Essex. The Combination and Lecture Rooms have mid-C18 fielded panelling, the oriel window added by Sir A W Blomfield in 1876. The Hall was fitted 1760-4 by James Essex and given a plaster ceiling, the C16 timber roof survives above. Reredos and screen of 1694, wrought-iron screen gates 1762. C16 and C17 stained glass. Westmorland Building 1719-22, damaged by fire in 1811 and rebuilt. Ashlar, with south front of red brick. 3 storeys, 19 bays. Interior fittings all post-fire except for 3 early Cl8 staircases. New Court. East Range and old chapel 1584-9, altered in 1838. Converted to the Library in 1679 and to an extra Dining Hall 1930-2 by George Drysdale. Original timber screen. West Range 1584-9, remodelled externally in the Tudor style in the early Cl9. North Range 1824, by James Webster. In the Tudor style. Unaltered internally. The 'Brick' Building 1632-4. Built by John Westley, bricklayer, and Henry Man, carpenter. Brick with stone dressings.3 storeys and attics. C19 dormer windows. C17 and C18 internal features. (All buildings fully described in RCHM.)
Listing NGR: TL4523558308
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 47135
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 5 Cambridgeshire,
Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge, (1959)
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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