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Pembroke College Cambridge

Collegiate Architecture in England, UK – with chapel design by architect Sir Christopher Wren

Beautiful asymmetric set of courtyards with subtle level changes complete with New Chapel by Christopher Wren in 1665.

Pembroke College – New Chapel
Date built: 1665
Design: Sir Christopher Wren architect

Pembroke College is one of the prettiest colleges with a small court immediately beyond the entrance.

Pembroke College Cambridge building
photo by Stanley Howe, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commonsy

Pembroke College Cambridge Building

College building also by famous English architect, Giles Gilbert Scott (1880-1960)

Sir Christopher Wren – Pembroke College Chapel architect

Foundress Court, Pembroke College
Date built: 1997
Design: Eric Parry Architects

Christopher Wren also designed the Chapel at Emmanuel College

Address: Pembroke College, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 1RF

Contact Pembroke College: 01223 338 100

Pembroke is home to the first chapel designed by Sir Christopher Wren and is one of the six Cambridge colleges to have educated a British prime minister, in Pembroke’s case William Pitt the Younger. The college library, with a Victorian neo-gothic clock tower, is endowed with an original copy of the first encyclopaedia to contain printed diagrams.

Location: Pembroke College, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 1RF, England, UK

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A selection of interesting new architectural developments in this beautiful English city:

The Simon Sainsbury Centre
Design: Stanton Williams Architects
The Simon Sainsbury Centre
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The Simon Sainsbury Centre Building

James Dyson Building at University of Cambridge
Design: Nicholas Hare Architects
James Dyson Building at University of Cambridge
photo © Alan Williams photography
James Dyson Building, University of Cambridge

Combined Colleges Boathouse in Cambridge
Design: R H Partnership Architects
Combined Colleges Boathouse
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Combined Colleges Boathouse Building

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Cambridge University Department of Architecture Extension
Design: Mole Architects
Cambridge University Department of Architecture on the Pembroke College page
photograph : David Butler
Cambridge University School of Architecture

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