Pembroke Street is a street in central
Cambridge
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Pembroke Street
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It runs between Downing Street
Downing Street is a street in Westminster in London that houses the official residences and offices of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Situated off Whitehall, it is long, and a few minutes' walk ...
and Tennis Court Road
Tennis Court Road is a historic street in central Cambridge, England. 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 ...
at the eastern end and a junction with Trumpington Street
Trumpington Street is a major historic street in central Cambridge, England. At the north end it continues as King's Parade where King's College is located. To the south it continues as Trumpington Road (the A1134), an arterial route out of ...
at the western end. It continues west on the other side of Trumpington Street as Mill Lane.
To the south of the street, along its entire length, is Pembroke College, hence the name.
In the 20th century, the architect W. D. Caröe added the Pitt Building between Ivy Court and the Alfred Waterhouse
Alfred Waterhouse (19 July 1830 – 22 August 1905) was an English architect, particularly associated with the Victorian Gothic Revival architecture, although he designed using other architectural styles as well. He is perhaps best known f ...
former Master's Lodge, and extended New Court with the construction of a new staircase on the other side of the Lodge. He linked the two buildings with an arched stone screen, Caröe Bridge, along Pembroke Street in a late Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
style.
To the north at the eastern end is the New Museums Site
The New Museums Site is a major site of the University of Cambridge, located on Pembroke Street, Cambridge, Pembroke Street and Free School Lane, sandwiched between Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Pembroke College, Camb ...
of the University of Cambridge
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts.
Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
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. The Cambridge University Department of Chemical Engineering was located here until 2017.
Just to the north of Pembroke Street is the Whipple Museum of the History of Science
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in Free School Lane
Free School Lane is a historic street in central Cambridge, England which includes important buildings of University of Cambridge. It is the location of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, the Department of History and Philosophy of ...
, which leads off Pembroke Street.
Botolph Lane runs parallel with Pembroke Street just to the north of it, between Free School Lane and Trumpington Street, to the south of Corpus Christi College.
References
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Streets in Cambridge
Pembroke College, Cambridge