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South · Founded 1768
Homerton College
Cambridge's newest full college and one of its largest, carrying a teacher-training heritage that reaches back to the eighteenth-century dissenting academies of London.
The college
A closer
look.
South — Hills Road
Founded 1768. Homerton traces its origins to a dissenting academy that acquired premises in Homerton, east London, in 1768, sustained by a fund of 1695 for educating ministers barred from the old universities; refounded for teacher training in the nineteenth century, it moved to Cambridge in 1894 and became a full self-governing college of the university by Royal Charter in 2010.
Victorian Gothic buildings inherited from the short-lived Cavendish College anchor a leafy site between Hills Road and the railway, joined by the Queen's Wing of 1957 and Feilden Fowles's faceted new dining hall of 2022.
On the same walk
Closest to
this one.
On a visit
Don’t miss.
- 01The Victorian Gothic Great Hall
- 02Feilden Fowles's dining hall of 2022
- 03The Ibberson Building
- 04The college orchard and gardens
- 05The Queen's Wing of 1957
Connected to
Notable
names.
- Olivia Colman (actress)
- Dame Leah Manning (educationalist and MP)
- Emily Phipps (suffragist and headteacher)
- William Johnson Fox (radical MP, London era)
- Edward Stallybrass (missionary and Bible translator)
- Long association with the university's Faculty of Education
Before you go
Visiting Homerton College
Visiting is geared to prospective students, with regular student-led tours bookable through the college and all visitors asked to report to the Porters' Lodge in the Mary Allan Building; general tourist access is not set out, so entry cannot be assumed and arrangements are given on the college website.
Opening hours, admission and access change often — check the official site before you travel.
- Founded
- 1768
- Area
- South — Hills Road
- Type
- College
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