St Catherine’s College: 1961-66. Arne Jacobsen – Grade I Listed
Podium and all buildings upon it. GV I College buildings, raised on a podium, including dining hall, common room blocks; two residential blocks; library; Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre; bell tower; piers and covering to walkways to east and west of library and east and west of hall; bridge adjoining west side of podium; brick walls enclosing canal and patio areas on western edge of podium; brick walls to patio areas to eastern edge of podium; twenty five short stretches of garden wall all running east-west, some incorporating seats; paving to podium surface and steps to east and south sides.
The dining hall seen from the east 1970 – Roy Herman Kantorowic
The dining hall 1963 – Edwin Smith
The Fellows’ dining table with ‘Oxford’ chairs designed by Arne Jacobsen at the south end of the dining hall 1964 – Eric de Mare.
The cruciform-section columns which carry the precast beams of the dining hall 1964 – Bill Toomey.
The south elevation of the Master’s house 1964 – Bill Toomey
The music room located in the south-west corner of the campus 1964 – Bill Toomey.
Close-up of the fenestration of a residential block overlooking the quadrangle 1964 – Bill Toomey.
A student room with fitted bookcase 1964 – Eric de Mare.
The bell tower and library block seen from the north-west 1964 – Gilbert Davies.
Library block 1963 – Eric de Mare
The library seen from the gallery 1964 – Eric de Mare.
The library 1964 – Colin Westwood.
The bicycle store 1964 – Colin Westwood.
The small lecture room in the auditorium block furnished with ‘Pot’ chairs designed by Arne Jacobsen 1971 – Johnathan Moor.
The quadrangle seen from the junior common room with the gable of a residential block on the left and the dining hall on the right 1964 – Bill Toomey.
The east elevation of the Master’s house 1964 – Eric de Mare.
The living room with connecting dining room in the Master’s house 1964 – Eric de Mare.
Close-up of the covered way to the dining hall from the west residential block 1964 – Bill Toomey.
Tthe junior common room furnished with ‘Swan’ armchairs by Arne Jacobsen 1964 – Bill Toomey.
The main auditorium of the lecture-room block with raked seating of swivel ‘Series 7’ chairs by Arne Jacobsen 1964 – Bill Toomey.
All images from RIBA pix.
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