Editing Christ's College, Cambridge (section)

==Buildings==
[[File:Christ's College Chapel, Cambridge, UK - Diliff.jpg|thumb|left|The chapel, with a viewing window from the Master's Lodge]]
[[File:Christ's College Cambridge Great Gate.jpg|thumb|The Great Gate of Christ's College]]
The original 15th/16th-century college buildings now form part of First Court, including the chapel, Master's Lodge and Great Gate tower. The gate itself is disproportionate: the bottom has been cut off to accommodate a rise in street level, which can be seen in the steps leading ''down'' to the foot of L staircase in the gate tower. The college hall, originally built at the start of the 16th century, was restored in 1875–1879 by [[George Gilbert Scott, Jr.|George Gilbert Scott the younger]]. The lawn of First Court is famously round, and a [[wisteria]] sprawls up the front of the Master's lodge.

Second Court is fully built up on only three sides, one of which is formed by the 1640s Fellows' Building. The fourth side backs onto the Master's garden.

The Stevenson Building in Third Court was designed by [[J. J. Stevenson]] in the 1880s and was extended in 1905 as part of the College's Quadcentenary. In 1947 Professor [[Albert Richardson (architect)|Albert Richardson]] designed a new cupola for the Stevenson building, and a second building, the neo-Georgian Chancellor's Building (W staircase, now known as The Blyth Building), completed in 1950. Third Court's Memorial Building (Y staircase), a twin of the Chancellor's building, also by Richardson, was completed in 1953 at a cost of £80,000.<ref>Christ's College Magazine, Michaelmas 1953</ref> Third Court is also noted for its display of irises in May and June, a gift to the college in 1946.<ref>Christ's College Magazine no. 228, p 53, 2003</ref>

The controversial tiered concrete New Court (often dubbed "the Typewriter") was designed in the [[Modern architecture|Modernist]] style by Sir [[Denys Lasdun]] in 1966–70, and was described as "superb" in Lasdun's obituary in the ''Guardian''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/Archive/Article/0,4273,4116124,00.html|title=Architects pay tribute to Denys Lasdun|work=The Guardian|date=12 January 2001|access-date=13 September 2014}}</ref> Design critic [[Hugh Pearman (architecture critic)|Hugh Pearman]] comments "Lasdun had big trouble relating to the street at the overhanging rear".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hughpearman.com/articles2/lasdun2.html |title=The Legacy of Lasdun |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305055321/http://www.hughpearman.com/articles2/lasdun2.html |archive-date=5 March 2012 }}</ref> It appears distinctively in aerial photographs, forming part of the northern boundary of the college.

An assortment of neighbouring buildings have been absorbed into the college, of which the most notable is the Todd Building, previously Cambridge's [[County Hall, Cambridge|County Hall]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Pevsner |first=Nikolaus |year=1970|title=The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire|publisher=Penguin|location=London|page=232|isbn=978-0300205961}}</ref>

Through an arch in the Fellows' Building is the Fellows' Garden. It includes two [[mulberry]] trees, of which the older was planted in 1608, the same year as [[John Milton|Milton]]'s birth. Both trees have toppled sideways, the younger tree in the [[Great Storm of 1987]], and are now earthed up round the trunks, but continue to fruit every year.<ref>Christ's College Magazine no. 228, p 56, 2003</ref>

===Swimming pool===

Christ's College is one of only five colleges in Oxford or Cambridge to have its own swimming pool. It is fed by water from [[Hobson's Conduit]]. Recently refurbished, it is now known as the 'Malcolm Bowie Bathing Pool', and is thought to be the oldest outdoor swimming pool in the UK, dating from the mid 17th century.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/default/news/malcolm-bowie-bathing-pool-official-opening | title = Malcolm Bowie Bathing Pool Official Opening | access-date = 13 September 2014 | publisher = Christ's College, Cambridge | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140525214349/http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/default/news/malcolm-bowie-bathing-pool-official-opening | archive-date = 25 May 2014 | url-status = dead | df = dmy-all }}</ref> The other four swimming pools within colleges belong to [[Girton College, Cambridge|Girton College]] (indoor pool), [[Corpus Christi College, Cambridge|Corpus Christi College]] (outdoor pool), [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge|Emmanuel College]] (outdoor pool) and [[Clare Hall, Cambridge|Clare Hall]] (indoor pool).

===Gallery===
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File:The Master's Lodge, Christ's College - geograph.org.uk - 632926.jpg|Master's Lodge, First Court
File:Cambridge - Christ's College - 1438.jpg|Charles Darwin's Rooms, First Court
File:Cambridge - Christ's College - 1479.jpg|Christ's College Cambridge, Dining Hall, Back
File:Christs Fellows Bldg-Garden.jpg|Fellows' Garden, showing rear of Fellows' Building
File:Third Court, Christ's College, Cambridge.jpg|Third Court: Memorial and Stevenson Buildings
File:Christs-college-third-court-2.jpg|New Court: Lasdun Building, known as "The Typewriter"
File:Charles Darwin Bicentenary Statue - geograph.org.uk - 1580145.jpg|Darwin Garden, New Court, w. Darwin statue by [[Anthony Smith (sculptor)|Anthony Smith]]
</gallery>

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