Cambridge - former University Library from Senate House Passage 2015-09-30

From NE. Built 1837-40 to the designs of Charles Robert Cockerell to accommodate the University Library; intended as the first stage of a rebuilding of the Old Schools quadrangle which was never completed. It became the law faculty library after a new university library was built west of the river in the 1930s; more recently taken over by Gonville and Caius College following the construction of a new law faculty building, also west of the river. Listed as "The Cockerell Building (Squire Law Library)": www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/11... ; RCHM: www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/pp9-25 (item 17).

The cast-iron railings are separately listed Grade I and are thought to be contemporary with the Senate House of 1722-30, although they have been re-erected: www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/11... .