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Downing College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge [5] and currently has around 950 students. Founded in 1800, it was the only college to be added to Cambridge University between 1596 and 1869, and is often described as the oldest of the new colleges and the newest of the old. [ 6 ]
The Downing Site is a major site of the University of Cambridge, located in the centre of the city of Cambridge, England, on Downing Street and Tennis Court Road, adjacent to Downing College. The Downing Site is the larger and newer of two city-centre science sites of the university (the other being the New Museums Site).
Tennis Court Road is a historic street in central Cambridge, England. [1] [2] It runs parallel with Trumpington Street to the west and Regent Street to the east. At the northern end is a junction with Pembroke Street to the west and Downing Street to the east. To the south as a T-junction with Lensfield Road (the A603).
The architect William Wilkins was tasked by the trustees of the Downing estate to design the plan for the college. Wilkins, a devotee of the neoclassical architectural style , designed the first campus-based college layout in the world with a magnificent entrance planned on Downing Street, reaching back to form the largest court in Cambridge ...
Lensfield Road is a road (part of the A603) in southeast central Cambridge, England. [1] [2] It runs between the junction of Trumpington Street and Trumpington Road to the west and the junction of Regent Street and Hills Road to the west. It continues as Gonville Place to the northeast past Parker's Piece, a large grassy area with footpaths.
On the southwestern side of the street is one of the larger University of Cambridge colleges, Downing College. The St Andrew's Street branch of Hobson's Conduit was added in 1631, providing a water supply for the eastern part of the city. It flowed from the conduit head along Lensfield Road in the south of Cambridge, then Regent Terrace, and on ...
Founded in 1800, through the will of Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet, Downing College was the first major scheme in England to be built in the Neoclassical Greek Revival style, and the first college to be built in Cambridge for more than two hundred years.
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