Description

STOREYS WAY
TL 45 NW
667/20/10017 Central Buildings
Churchill College
GV II
Central building, containing dining room and kitchens, common
rooms, boiler house, college offices and main entrance. 1961-
68. Sheppard Robson and Partners. Brown brick and concrete,
both pre-cast and board-marked. 2 storeys. Irregular 'H' plan,
with dining hall forming the link between two parallel ranges.
Dining hall on upper floor but rising above other parts,
topped by three segmental barrel vaults. Pre-cast concrete
sunscreen with pre-cast mullions below vaults. Dark timber
panelling internally. Horizontal strip windows to lower
buildings with timber frames including thick timber
horizontals. A pair of giant brick piers mark the entrance
which is recessed between them; pivoting entrance gate of
aluminium by sculptor Geoffrey Clarke.
An integral part of Churchill College planned layout.
N. Taylor, Cambridge New Architecture.

Listing NGR: TL4378659274

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26521602

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)