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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 ]
To the east at the northern end is the Downing Site, a major site for departments of the University of Cambridge. On the northeastern end of the road on this site is one of the University museums, the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Also on the road are: The Hopkins Building (University of Cambridge Department of Biochemistry, built ...
The Downing Site is the larger and newer of two city-centre science sites of the university (the other being the New Museums Site). Largely populated with utilitarian brick buildings dating from the 1930s, the more notable buildings include the Zoology Laboratory (1900–04), Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences (1904–11) and Downing Street ...
Downing Place leads off to the south. To the north at the western end is the New Museums Site of the University of Cambridge. To the south is the Downing Site of the University. Many of the University's departments are located here. Downing Place United Reformed Church (St Columba's) is on the corner with Downing Place.
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Downing College, Cambridge: built after Whittington's father lost his twenty-two-year legal battle. George Downing Whittington (1780-1807) was a Church of England priest and architectural historian. In a posthumous publication of 1809, he was the first to date the origin of Gothic to Abbot Suger 's work at St-Denis .
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