2025

TL4558 : Entrance to Sedgwick Building, Downing Street, Cambridge

taken 6 months ago, near to Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

Entrance to Sedgwick Building, Downing Street, Cambridge
Entrance to Sedgwick Building, Downing Street, Cambridge
A fine, but rather fanciful, depiction of extinct animals, iguanodon (left) and Giant Ground Sloth (right). The building Link , designed by Sir T G Jackson, dates from 1904-11 and is Listed Grade II.
Sedgwick Museum

The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, is the geology museum of the University of Cambridge. It is part of the Department of Earth Sciences and is located on the University's Downing Site in Downing Street. The Sedgwick Museum is one of the eight museums which make up the University of Cambridge Museums. The museum is named after Adam Sedgwick the Victorian geologist.


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TL4558, 4945 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Alan Murray-Rust   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Friday, 26 December, 2025   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 4 January, 2026
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TL 4510 5821 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:12.1815N 0:7.3117E
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OSGB36: geotagged! TL 4510 5822
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South-southeast (about 157 degrees)
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