Clare Hall, Cambridge

Clare Hall is a College for Advanced Study in the University of Cambridge. It was founded by Clare College in 1966, and received its own Royal Charter as an independent college in the university in 1984.

Growth and Development

In 1978, a second neighbouring house, now called Leslie Barnett house, was obtained for graduate student accommodation. This purchase also allowed the Michael Stoker and Brian Pippard Buildings to be built in the college grounds, providing further student rooms. The Anthony Low Building in the garden of Elmside was completed in 2000 and provides further common rooms and the Garden Bar for the graduates on the main college site.

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In the summer of 1996 the college purchased a substantial property, formerly the Cambridge family home of Lord Rothschild, which is about five minutes walk from the college at the end of Herschel Road. It was renamed Clare Hall West Court and, after conversion and some major building works, now provides public rooms, studies, apartments, study bedrooms, a fitness centre, swimming pool, and a tennis court.

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