Cambridge - Christ's College- Valentines postcard c.1920s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Christ College, Cambridge
• Publisher:  Valentines 05315
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
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Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, with around 600 students^[1] (currently 420 undergrads and 170 postgraduates). The college, founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort in 1505, charter granted on May 1, was the twelfth of the current colleges to be founded in its current form, though it had been previously founded as God's House in 1437.

With a reputation for high academic standards, Christ's College averaged top place in the Tompkins Table from 1980-2000.^[2] In 2011, Christ's was placed sixth.

The college grew from God's House, an institution founded in 1437 on land now occupied by King's College Chapel. It received its first royal licence in 1446. It moved to its present site in 1448 when it received its second royal licence. It was renamed Christ's College and received its present charter in 1505 when it was endowed and expanded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII.

The original 15th/16th century college buildings now form part of First Court, including the chapel, Master's Lodge and Great Gate tower. The gate itself is disproportionate: the bottom has been cut off to accommodate a rise in street level, which can also be seen in the steps leading down to the foot of L staircase in the gate tower. The college hall, originally built at the very start of the 16th century was restored in 1875-1879 by George Gilbert Scott, the younger. The lawn of First Court is famously round, and an impressive wisteria sprawls up the front of the master's lodge.

Second Court is fully built up on only three sides, one of which is formed by the 1640s Fellows' Building. The fourth side backs onto the Master's garden.

The Stevenson Building in Third Court was designed by J. J. Stevenson, in the 1880s and was extended in 1905 as part of the College's Quadcentenary. In 1947 Professor Richardson designed the second building, the neo-Georgian Chancellor's Building (W staircase), completed in 1950. Third Court's Memorial Building (Y staircase), a twin of the Chancellor's building was completed in 1953 for £80,000.^[3] Third Court is also noted for its display of irises in May and June, a gift to the college in 1946.^[4]

The controversial tiered concrete New Court (often dubbed ""the Typewriter"") was designed in the Modernist style by Sir Denys Lasdun in 1966-70, and was described as ""superb"" in Lasdun's obituary in the Guardian.^[5] Design critic Hugh Pearman comments ""Lasdun had big trouble relating to the street at the overhanging rear"".^[6] It appears very distinctively in aerial photographs, forming part of the northern boundary of the college.

An assortment of neighbouring buildings have been absorbed into the college, of which the most notable is The Todd Building, previously Cambridge's County Hall.

Through an arch in the Fellows' Building is the Fellows' Garden. It includes two mulberry trees, of which the older was planted in 1608, the same year as Milton's birth. Both trees have toppled sideways, the younger tree in the Great Storm of 1987, and are now earthed up round the trunks, but continue to fruit every year.^[7]

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=cambridgeshire

number of items=single

period=inter-war (1918 - 1939)

postage condition=unposted