History of St Catharine's College

Hand-tinted postcard showing the stone buildings and gated courtyard of St Catharine’s College, with a lone person standing.

Museum of Cambridge collection

A large group of men in military uniforms sit at long tables set for a meal in a room with wood-paneled walls.

St Catharine College, 1915

St Catharine’s College: frontage — 16 April 1932

St Catharine’s was one of the colleges whose elaborate extension schemes met with a setback through the war. There was to have been a full elevation to Trumpington Street with a completely enclosed court beyond. Now the porter’s lodge will be replaced, the cobbles removed and the whole area sown with grass to give a more balanced frontage. It is eight years since that the elm trees, which formed a grove, were cut down.

Credit: Mike Petty Archive, Cambridge Trumpington Street Scrapbook, ref. 32 04 16.

Black and white view of Queens' Lane with parked cars lining the brick wall of St Catharine's College and scaffolding visible.

Queens’ Lane, back of St Catharine’s College, 1964 (MoC)

An elevated view of a brick college building and courtyard with a long white boundary wall and parked cars in the foreground.

St Catharine’s Chapel, 1964 (MoC10/67)

A narrow brick building and a multi-story college block flank a street with several vintage cars parked along the curb.

View of St Catharine’s College from Queens’ Lane, 1964 (MoC6/67)

Nineteen young men posed in front of a wooden building, some wearing sweaters and athletic shorts, under a crest with a wheel.

St Catharine’s Trial Eight (date unknown) (MoCX/2007)

Sources

Mike Petty Archive

Projects

Trumpington Street

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