Since 1961 Leckhampton has been the residential site for
postgraduate students
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The organization and stru ...
of
Corpus Christi College of the
University of Cambridge
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts.
Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
, established =
, other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...
,
England
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. It consists of the late-19th-century Leckhampton House, the
George Thomson George Thomson may refer to:
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Building, dating from 1964, and several other nearby houses. In 2012, a new, purpose-built accommodation building was built to house additional students. The new building was opened on 14 September 2012 by the
College Visitor and
Chancellor of the University,
David Sainsbury
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.
The buildings are set off
Grange Road in the west of
Cambridge
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amidst large, attractive gardens adjacent to
Corpus
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* ...
's sports grounds, about fifteen minutes' walk from the main college site in
Trumpington Street
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. Leckhampton has its own library, dining hall and bar; it forms the social as well as residential centre of
Corpus
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* ...
graduate life. It also houses a number of fellows, both visiting and of
Corpus
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* ...
.
Removed from the city centre, yet close to many academic buildings including the
University Library
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and the
Sidgwick Site
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Overview and history
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, Leckhampton is in a convenient location for graduate students, and was a pioneering development among Cambridge colleges when it was established as a graduate centre. Prior to this, graduate students at Cambridge, long a tiny minority of the student body, had for the most part lived among undergraduates in colleges' main sites.
Corpus
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* Speech corpus, in linguistics, a large set of speech audio files
* Corpus linguistics, a branch of linguistics
Music
* ...
's response to the rapidly growing number of graduate students in the 1960s was to establish in 1961 at Leckhampton a largely self-contained graduate community, a move which has since been emulated to some extent by many other colleges. Although at least one of these developments went much further than Leckhampton –
Clare College
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's graduate site became the independent college of
Clare Hall in 1984. Since the separation of
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and
Clare Hall, it is once again unique among the colleges that admit both undergraduates and postgraduates in having a dedicated graduate site.
The interests of Leckhampton are represented by the Warden of Leckhampton, a senior Fellow of the College. The Warden has rooms in Leckhampton House, and hosts a number of social functions at Leckhampton throughout the year. The current Warden i
John David Rhodes who lectures on European and American cinema in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages.
History
Leckhampton House was designed by the architect William C. Marshall in 1881 for its first inhabitants,
Frederic W. H. Myers
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and
Eveleen Tennant
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. Frederic Myers was a classical scholar, poet, essayist and founder of the
Society for Psychical Research
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. Eveleen Tennant Myers was a talented amateur photographer whose collection is displayed at the
National Portrait Gallery, including many photographs of Leckhampton House.
In contrast to Leckhampton House's suburban late-
Victorianism, the George Thomson Building (named after the
Nobel Prize
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-winning physicist
George Paget Thomson
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, sometime master of the college) is Grade II listed example of postwar modernism, designed by
Philip Dowson
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of
Arup Associates
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.
Like other buildings of its kind on University campuses, some have criticised it as unimaginative, boxy and out of place. Others, however, have hailed it as an outstanding example for the period. The other buildings of Leckhampton are late-nineteenth-century houses in the adjacent streets which have been bought by the college over the years and linked to the main buildings and gardens, and a new building opened in September 2012.
List of wardens
*H. C.
Longuet-Higgins (1962-1966)
*
Robin Coombs
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(1966-1969)
*J. P. T. Bury (1969-1975)
*
Barry Cross
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Corpus Christi College (full name: "The College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary", often s ...
(1975-1980)
*
John T. Dingle (1980-1986)
*D. W. Dewhurst (1986-1993)
*
Haroon Ahmed
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(1993-1998)
*A. V. Lowe (1998-1999)
*C. J. Howe (1999-2004)
*
David Ibbetson
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(2004–2013)
*J. Buxton (2013–2017)
*J. D. Rhodes (2017-Pres.)
References
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Buildings and structures in Cambridge
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge