TL4559 : Lady Margaret's Boathouse
taken 10 years ago, near to Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Gable end on to river, with applied decorative timbers and the College crest in the apex of the roof. The roof is corrugated iron. The gable end has three first floor windows. The central projecting oriel window has a hipped clay tiled roof and casement windows. The top panes are fixed and divided into 3x3, and the bottom casements are side hung 2x4x2.The two side casement windows have top panes fixed and divided into 3x3, and bottom casements side hung 2x2.
The first floor is white render with blue decorations and one red brick chimneystack. The ground floor is red brick, with two side hung double doors with concrete lintels above. The guttering is all cast iron. An extension to the side of the building is red brick, with one set of double doors and white boarding above. The east elevation has two windows similar to those on the front. The first floor has a set of double doors, with fixed panes above, which originally lead to an external staircase. At the rear is a single storey extension with a clay tiled roof.
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.
St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.The full formal name of the college is "The Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge". The college was founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, in 1511. The aims of the College, as specified by its Statutes, are the promotion of education, religion, learning and research.
Most of the buildings are Grade I listed. Link
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- Grid Square
- TL4559, 1328 images (more nearby 🔍)
- Photographer
- N Chadwick (more nearby)
- Date Taken
- Sunday, 19 April, 2015 (more nearby)
- Submitted
- Saturday, 16 January, 2016
- Subject Location
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OSGB36:
TL 4535 5937 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:12.8028N 0:7.5609E - Camera Location
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OSGB36: TL 4538 5932
- View Direction
- North-northwest (about 337 degrees)
