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North · Founded 1869
Fitzwilliam College
A college founded to open Cambridge to students of modest means, whose Huntingdon Road site is one of the university's best ensembles of post-war architecture.
The college
A closer
look.
North — Storey's Way, off Huntingdon Road
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.
Denys 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.
On a visit
Don’t miss.
- 01Denys Lasdun's 1960s brick ranges and central hall
- 02Richard MacCormac's chapel of 1991
- 03The Grove, the Regency house at the heart of the site
- 04The mature college gardens
- 05The snaking perimeter ranges seen from Storey's Way
Connected to
Notable
names.
- Lee Kuan Yew (first Prime Minister of Singapore)
- Angus Deaton (Nobel laureate in economics)
- Nick Drake (singer-songwriter)
- Vince Cable (politician)
- Norman Lamont (Chancellor of the Exchequer)
- David Starkey (historian)
Before you go
Visiting Fitzwilliam College
The 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.
Opening hours, admission and access change often — check the official site before you travel.
- Founded
- 1869
- Area
- North — Storey's Way, off Huntingdon Road
- Type
- College
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