2017

TL4559 : Corpus Christi and Sidney Sussex Boathouse

taken 7 years ago, near to Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

Corpus Christi and Sidney Sussex Boathouse
Corpus Christi and Sidney Sussex Boathouse
The combined Corpus Christi and Sidney Sussex boathouse was designed by David Roberts and built in 1958-9, and is a grade II Listed Building. Extensions to the sides were added in the 1980s.
Cambridge Boathouses

The college boat houses are along the River Cam, downstream of Victoria Bridge.
Rowing first started at Cambridge in 1825, before it was introduced at Oxford. The first College boat club established was St. Johns, closely followed by Trinity. By 1830 Jesus, Magdalene, Emmanuel, Christ’s, Corpus Christi and Peterhouse Colleges had also founded boat clubs, and by 1835 a total of fifteen Colleges had them. Newnham ladies founded the first women’s boat club in 1896.
The first College boathouse was built for Trinity in 1872, and by the end of the nineteenth century most of the Colleges had built, or started to build, boathouses of their own.

Corpus Christi College :: TL4458

Corpus Christi College (full name: The College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary, often shortened to "Corpus", or previously sometimes "The Body") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is notable as the only college founded by Cambridge townspeople: it was established in 1352 by the Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary, making it the sixth-oldest college in Cambridge. With around 500 students and fellows, it is also the second smallest of the traditional colleges of the University (after Peterhouse), and the smallest in terms of undergraduate student intake.
Grade I listed. LinkExternal link
Wikipedia: LinkExternal link

Sidney Sussex College :: TL4558

Sidney Sussex College (referred to informally as "Sidney") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
The college was founded in 1596 and named after its foundress, Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex. It was from its inception an avowedly Puritan foundation: some good and godlie moniment for the mainteynance of good learninge. Oliver Cromwell was among the first students (although his father became ill and he never graduated), and his head is now buried beneath the College's Ante-Chapel.
The main part of the college is Grade I listed. LinkExternal link
Website: LinkExternal link
Wikipedia: LinkExternal link


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This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Boathouse [340] · Building [201] · Grade II Listed [66] · Sets of Double [35] · Corpus Christi [20] Title Clusters: · Corpus Christi and Sidney Sussex Boathouse [5] ·
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TL4559, 1307 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
N Chadwick   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Friday, 30 June, 2017   (more nearby)
Submitted
Wednesday, 13 December, 2017
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TL 4578 5909 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:12.6451N 0:7.9310E
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TL 4576 5905
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North-northeast (about 22 degrees)
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