North · Founded 1896
St Edmund's College
Cambridge's college for mature undergraduates and postgraduates, distinguished by its Catholic founding history and a hillside setting above the city on Castle Hill.
The college
A closer
look.
North — Mount Pleasant
Founded 1896. Founded in 1896 as St Edmund's House by the 15th Duke of Norfolk and Baron Anatole von Hügel, it is the only Cambridge or Oxford college with a post-Reformation Roman Catholic founding, and became a full college in 1996.
Late Victorian and modern: the red-brick Norfolk Building of the 1890s and an early twentieth-century chapel anchor a ten-acre garden campus on Mount Pleasant, filled out by contemporary residential and teaching buildings.
On a visit
Don’t miss.
- 01The red-brick Norfolk Building
- 02The college chapel
- 03The garden campus on Mount Pleasant
- 04The walk down Castle Hill to the city centre
Connected to
Notable
names.
- Georges Lemaître, the priest-physicist who proposed the Big Bang theory
- Baron Anatole von Hügel, co-founder and first head of house
- Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk, co-founder
- The Von Hügel Institute for Catholic social thought
Before you go
Visiting St Edmund's College
St Edmund's is a working college for mature and postgraduate students rather than a tourist site, and it publishes no general public opening hours. Access cannot be assumed; prospective visitors should contact the college via its official website.
Opening hours, admission and access change often — check the official site before you travel.
- Founded
- 1896
- Area
- North — Mount Pleasant
- Type
- College
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