Clare College, Buildings Surrounding Fore and Principal Courts Cambridge, England
Listed Building Data
Clare College, Buildings Surrounding Fore and Principal Courts has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1320280
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 26 April 1950
- Name
- CLARE COLLEGE, THE BUILDINGS SURROUNDING THE FORE AND PRINCIPAL COURTS
- Location
- CLARE COLLEGE, THE BUILDINGS SURROUNDING THE FORE AND PRINCIPAL COURTS
- District
- Cambridge
- County
- Cambridgeshire
- Grid Reference
- TL 44665 58427
- Easting
- 544664.8600
- Northing
- 258426.9900
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
CLARE COLLEGE 1. 942 The Buildings surrounding the Fore and Principal Courts TL 4458 SE 6/249 26.4.50. I 2. Built of Ketton and Weldon stone ashlar with Collyweston stone slate and lead roofs between 1638 and 1715, being delayed by the Civil War. They are, however, a remarkably unified and fine example of the Early Renaissance style. East Range and Main Gateway 1638-41 with alterations in 1891. Many C17 and C18 internal features. South Range 1640-42. Many C17 internal features. North Range with Hall and Library 1683-93. By Robert Grumbold. The interior of the Hall altered 1870-72 by Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt. Library woodwork by James Essex 1729. West Range 1640-1715. Master's Lodge re-modelled in 1815. Many features of the late C17 and early C18 remain. Chapel 1763-69. Designed by Sir James Burrough and James Essex. (All described in the RCHM).
Listing NGR: TL4466558427
