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ensembles of post-war architecture.\n\n[Official site]()\n\nFounded 1869\n\nWhere North\n\nAccess Check before visiting\n\nType College\n\nThe college\n\n### A closer\n*look.*\n\nNorth — Storey's Way, off Huntingdon Road\n\n**Founded 1869.** Founded in 1869 as Cambridge's non-collegiate institution for able students who could not afford college membership, it was known successively as Fitzwilliam Hall and Fitzwilliam House before moving to Huntingdon Road in 1963 and becoming an independent college by Royal Charter in 1966.\n\nDenys Lasdun's modernist brick ranges of the early 1960s form the core of the college, later joined by Richard MacCormac's lantern-like chapel of 1991, and the whole site wraps around The Grove, a Regency house standing in mature gardens.\n\nNearby on foot · North **Find Fitzwilliam College and the closest colleges.**\n\nExplore around Fitzwilliam College\n\n The map will load when you reach it.\n\n52.2145°N, 0.1049°W [Get directions]()\n\nOn the same walk\n\n### Closest to\n*this one.*\n\n[3 min walk **Churchill College** West]()[3 min walk **Murray Edwards College** North]()[4 min walk **St Edmund's College** North]()[7 min walk **Lucy Cavendish College** North]()\n\nOn a visit\n\n### Don’t *miss.*\n\n1. 01 Denys Lasdun's 1960s brick ranges and central hall\n2. 02 Richard MacCormac's chapel of 1991\n3. 03 The Grove, the Regency house at the heart of the site\n4. 04 The mature college gardens\n5. 05 The snaking perimeter ranges seen from Storey's Way\n\nConnected to\n\n### Notable\n*names.*\n\n- Lee Kuan Yew (first Prime Minister of Singapore)\n- Angus Deaton (Nobel laureate in economics)\n- Nick Drake (singer-songwriter)\n- Vince Cable (politician)\n- Norman Lamont (Chancellor of the Exchequer)\n- David Starkey (historian)\n\nBefore you go\n\n#### Visiting Fitzwilliam College\n\nThe college describes itself as always open to visitors, with entry via the Porters' Lodge on Storey's Way and no admission charge stated; any restrictions, for example around examinations, are set out on the college website.\n\nOpening hours, admission and access change often — check the [official site]() before you travel.\n\nFounded\n\n1869\n\nArea\n\nNorth — Storey's Way, off Huntingdon Road\n\nType\n\nCollege\n\nBefore you visit\n\n### Check hours, tickets and access.\n\nCheck opening hours, admission prices and access with the venue before setting off.\n\nUpdated\n\nDate unavailable\n\nBy\n\n[Above Guide Editorial Team]()\n\nUseful links\n\n- [Official site fitz.cam.ac.uk ↗]()\n- [Reference identity en.wikipedia.org ↗]()\n\n[Report a correction]()\n\nKeep exploring\n\n### Where to\n*next.*\n\n[All colleges]()[Neighbourhoods]()[Things to Do]()" }