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== Campus == King's is based on five campuses in central London.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/visit|title=Visit|publisher=King's College London|access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref> === Strand Campus === {{main|Strand Campus}} [[File:KCL King's Building 3 Final.jpg|The [[Listed building|Grade I listed]] King's Building in the Strand Quadrangle, designed by [[Robert Smirke (architect)|Sir Robert Smirke]]|thumb]] The Strand Campus is the original campus of King's and is located on the [[Strand, London|Strand]] in the [[City of Westminster]]. The campus is based around the [[Listed building#England and Wales|Grade I listed]] original [[King's Building, London|King's Building]] built for the college in 1831, designed by [[Robert Smirke (architect)|Sir Robert Smirke]], adjacent to [[Somerset House]] and sharing its frontage along the [[River Thames]], including the [[King's College London Chapel]], redesigned in 1864 by [[Sir George Gilbert Scott]].<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1237041|desc=SOMERSET HOUSE AND KING'S COLLEGE OLD BUILDING|access-date=23 December 2024|grade=I|date=5 February 1970}}</ref> The campus also includes buildings along the adjacent Surrey Street, the Strand Building and the east wing of Somerset House. Beyond this contiguous complex of buildings, the campus also includes [[Bush House]] on the opposite side of the Strand, the Virginia Woolf Building on [[Kingsway, London|Kingsway]], and the [[Maughan Library]] and etc.venues on [[Chancery Lane]].<ref name=Strand>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/visit/strand-campus|title=Stand Campus|publisher=King's College London|access-date=23 December 2024}}</ref> [[File:King's College London Chapel 2, London - Diliff.jpg|thumb|right|The King's College London Chapel inside the King's Building, redesigned in 1864 by [[Sir George Gilbert Scott]]]] The Strand Campus houses the arts and science faculties of King's, including the faculties of [[King's College London School of Arts & Humanities|arts and humanities]], [[The Dickson Poon School of Law|law]], natural and mathematical sciences, social science and public policy, and business, as well as the King's Foundation.<ref name=Strand/> The students' union runs the Shack café and the Vault bar in Bush House on the Strand Campus,<ref name=Shack>{{cite web|url=https://www.kclsu.org/venues/theshack/|title=The Shack|publisher=King's College London Student Union|access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref><ref name=Vault>{{cite web|url=https://www.kclsu.org/venues/thevault/|title=The Vault|publisher=King's College London Student Union|access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref> and has two contact hubs on the campus, also in Bush House.<ref name="KCLSU hubs">{{cite web|url=https://www.kclsu.org/about/contactus/|title=Contact us|publisher=King's College London Student Union|access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref> [[File:Maughan-library-1.jpg|thumb|The [[Maughan Library]], Chancery Lane]] === Guy's Campus === {{main|Guy's Campus}} [[File:KCL Guys Campus1.jpg|The Hodgkin Building, Guy's Campus|thumb|right]] Guy's Campus is close to [[London Bridge]] on the [[South Bank]] of the Thames and is adjacent to [[Guy's Hospital]]. It is home to the [[King's College London School of Medicine|faculty of life sciences and medicine]] (also at the Waterloo Campus), the dental institute, and the institute of psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience (also at the Denmark Hill Campus).<ref name=Guys>{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/visit/guys-campus |title=Guy's Campus |publisher=King's College London |access-date=28 December 2024}}</ref> Buildings include: the Henriette Raphael building,<ref name=Guys/> the Hodgkin building<ref name=Guys/> and Shepherd's House.<ref name=Guys/> The campus is also home to the [[Gordon Museum of Pathology]] and the [[Museum of Life Sciences]] (neither of which is open to the public),<ref name="Gordon Museum">{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/lsm/centre-for-education/museums/gordon-museum/index|title= The Gordon Museum of Pathology |publisher=King's College London|access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref><ref name="Life Sciences Museum">{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/lsm/centre-for-education/museums/museum-of-life-sciences/index|title= The Museum of Life Sciences|publisher=King's College London|access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref> as well as the Chapel of Thomas Guy.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/chaplaincy/chapels-chaplaincies/chapels|title=Chapels|publisher=King's College London|access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref> The [[KCLSU|Students' Union]] runs Guy's Bar, Guy's Café and a contact hub on the Guy's Campus.<ref name="KCLSU hubs" /><ref name="Guys Bar">{{cite web|url=https://www.kclsu.org/venues/guysbar/|title=Guy's Bar|publisher=King's College London Student Union|access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref><ref name="Guys Cafe">{{cite web|url=https://www.kclsu.org/venues/guyscafe/|title=Guy's Café|publisher=King's College London Student Union|access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref> The Great Dover Street Apartments and Wolfson House halls of residence are close to the campus.<ref name=Guys/> The hospital and the campus are named after [[Thomas Guy]], who established the hospital with money from his investments in the slave-trading [[South Sea Company]].<ref>{{cite report|title=Thomas Guy, Sir Robert Clayton and Our Shared Colonial Past: Sources, Context, Connections|url=https://gsttfoundation.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Historical-Report.pdf|first1=Michael D. |last1=Bennett|first2= Esther |last2=Brot|date=September 2021}}</ref> A [[statue of Thomas Guy]], installed in 1734 and owned by the Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation, stands outside the hospital, on the grounds of the university campus. This was boarded up in 2020, following the [[George Floyd protests]], it was de-boarded for conservation work, with temporary interpretation added, in November 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/students/update-on-thomas-guy-statue|title= Update on Thomas Guy statue|date=4 November 2022|publisher=King's College London|access-date=31 December 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/slavery-notice-to-be-placed-with-statue-of-guys-hospital-founder-kp57qsslj|title= Slavery notice to be placed with statue of Guy's Hospital founder|author=Kaya Burgess|date=14 November 2022|work=[[The Times]]}}</ref> Permanent interpretation was installed in November 2023.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/students/update-on-thomas-guy-statue-november-2023|title= Update on Thomas Guy Statue – November 2023 |date=13 November 2023|publisher=King's College London}}</ref> === Waterloo Campus === [[File:Franklin-wilkins.jpg|thumb|The Franklin-Wilkins Building, Waterloo Campus]] The Waterloo Campus is in [[London Borough of Lambeth|Lambeth]], across [[Waterloo Bridge]] from the Strand Campus and adjacent to the [[Southbank Centre]]. It has three main buildings: the James Clerk Maxwell Building, the Franklin–Wilkins Building (one of the largest university buildings in London) and the Stamford Street Apartments (student accommodation).<ref name=Waterloo>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/visit/waterloo-campus|title=Waterloo Campus|publisher=King's College London|access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref> The campus is home to the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery and parts of the faculty of life sciences and medicine (also on Guy's Campus); the faculty of social science and public policy (also on the Strand Campus); and the London Dental Education Centre, part of the Dental Institute (also on the Guy's and Denmark Hill campuses).<ref name=Waterloo/> The students' union has a contact hub in the Franlin-Wilkins Building.<ref name="KCLSU hubs" /> === St Thomas' Campus === [[File:St Thomas' Hospital, London-8709495359.jpg|thumb|South Wing, St Thomas' Hospital]] The St Thomas' Campus is located at [[St Thomas' Hospital]], named after [[St Thomas Becket]], in [[London Borough of Lambeth|Lambeth]], facing the [[Palace of Westminster|Houses of Parliament]] across the Thames. It carries out continuing medical and dental training as well as housing the [[Florence Nightingale Museum]], an independent charity.<ref name="St Thomas' Campus">{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/visit/st-thomas-campus |title=St Thomas' Campus |access-date=30 December 2024|publisher=King's College London}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Foundation of St Thomas's |page=1 |url=http://www.thegarret.org.uk/pdfs/exhibitions/stthomashospitalmedieval.pdf|access-date=2 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111216151658/http://www.thegarret.org.uk/pdfs/exhibitions/stthomashospitalmedieval.pdf|archive-date=16 December 2011|url-status=dead }}</ref> === Denmark Hill Campus === The Denmark Hill Campus is situated in [[Camberwell]] in [[London Borough of Southwark|Southwark]]. It is the home of the [[Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience]] (IoPPN) and also houses parts of the dental institute and the faculty of medicine and life sciences.<ref name="Denmark Hill Campus">{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/visit/denmark-hill-campus |title=Denmark Hill Campus |access-date=30 December 2024|publisher=King's College London}}</ref> The students' union has a contact hub in the IoPPN.<ref name="KCLSU hubs" /> === Other sites === ====Halls of residence==== King's has halls of residence across central London. With the exception of the Stamford Street Apartments on the Waterloo Campus, these are separate sites from the college's campuses.<ref name=Waterloo/><ref name="halls">{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/accommodation/residences|title=Residences|publisher=King's College London|access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref> ====Sports grounds==== The college has two sports grounds, at [[New Malden]] and [[Honor Oak]] Park in London.<ref name="sports grounds">{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/sport/clubs-sports|title=Sports Grounds|publisher=King's College London|access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref> ====Shrivenham==== Whilst not a formal campus, King's retains an academic presence and estate at the [[Defence Academy of the United Kingdom]] in [[Shrivenham]], [[Oxfordshire]]. Through its Defence Studies Department, King's has delivered professional military training to much of the UK armed services through the [[Joint Services Command and Staff College]] since 2000 under contract to the [[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Defence]].<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/archive/news/kings/newsrecords/2011/10october/newmodcontract |date=18 October 2011 |title=Defence Studies contract renewal |publisher=King's College London |access-date=8 February 2021 |archive-date=14 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214121106/https://www.kcl.ac.uk/archive/news/kings/newsrecords/2011/10october/newmodcontract |url-status=dead }}</ref> ====Newquay==== The King's Service Centre, established in 2015 to provide professional services and IT support to the university, is located in [[Newquay]], [[Cornwall]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ksc.ac.uk/|publisher=King's Service Centre|title=Welcome|access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/continuing-to-serve-cornwall|date=26 May 2020|title=#ContinuingToServe in Cornwall|access-date=30 December 2024|publisher=King's College London}}</ref>
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