Cambridge River Tour - Building and Founding Dates

When was St Johns founded and by who?

1511

John Fisher a. Lady Margaret Beaufort

When was the bridge of Sighs built and who designed it?

1831

Henry Hutchinson

When was St Johns New Court built and who designed it?

1825-31

Henry Hutchinson / Thomas Rickman

When was Trinity College founded and by who?

1546

Henry VIII

When was Trinity New Court built and who designed it?

1825

William Wilkins

When was Trinity Brewhouse built and who designed it?

1825

William Wilkins

When was Trinity Hall founded and by who?

1350

William Bateman, Bishop of Norwich

When was the Trinity Hall Jerwood Library built and who designed it?

1998

Freeland Rees Roberts

When was Clare College founded + refounded + renamed and by who?

1326 Richard Badew - University Hall

1338 Elizabeth de Clare - Clare Hall

1856 renamed Clare College

When was Clare College river room built and who designed it, what was it’s construction part of?

2020-2023

Witherford Watson Mann

Part of a £42 million transformation of old court

When was Clare College Old Court built and who designed it, how long did it take to build and why?

1638-1715 (77 years)

Inigo James

Lost supplies during building due to ECW

When was King’s College founded and by who?

1441

King Henry VI

When did King’s College Chapel start building? Give the overall timeline of construction.

1446-1536 (90 years)

1446 Foundation stone laid by King Henry VI

1461-1476 construction halted after Henry VI deposed + WotR

1476-1485 Edward IV + Richard III limited work, five bays constructed and temporary timber roof

1508-1515 Henry VII work restarts (VII dies in 1509) largely funded by will and gifts to secure project for Tudor dynasty

1512-1515 Henry VIII main structure of roof completed by 1512, fan vaulting installed by 1515

1515-1536 finalisation of chapel, including installation of stained glass (completed 1531) + rood screen 1536

When was Bodley’s court constructed and who designed it? When was the extension added?

1893

Sir Frederick Bodley

1955 (Stone mines reopened)

When was Queens’ College originally founded and by who, what was its original name, what Queens are attributed to it and when?

1446 Andrew Dockett - St Bernard’s

1448 patronage of Margaret of Anjou - Queen’s college

1465 “re-founded” by Elizabeth Woodville - Queens’ College

When was the Erasmus building built and who designed it?

1960

Sir Basil Spence

When was the President’s Lodge built and who possibly designed it?

1460s

Reginald of Ely (unconfirmed)

When was the Mathematical bridge built; who designed it and who built it? When was it rebuilt?

1748 designed by William Etheridge

1749 built by James Essex

Repaired in 1866

Built to same design in 1905

When was Cripps Court built and who designed it?

1974-1983

Powell & Moya

When was Darwin College founded and by which colleges?

1964

Trinity, St John’s, Gonville and Caius

When was Silver Street Bridge built and who designed it?

1959

Edwin Lutyens

When was the Study Centre built and who designed it?

1994

Dixon Jones

When was the Old Granary remodelled and by who’s designs? How old is the original building?

1885

John James Stevenson

Late 1700s - early 1800s