Subseries 09 - Plans and drawings of the Cockerell Building

GC/DOM/PD/09

1 drawer

The building was conceived by C.R. Cockerell for the University in the 1830s as part of a grander scheme to replace the Old Schools. With periodic adaptations, the building housed part of the University Library, and later the Seeley Historical Library and the Squire Law Library. In 1988, the building was acquired on a long-term lease for the College. The interior was overhauled by Donald Insall and Associates to provide accommodation for the College's working library, early printed books, manuscripts, archive and computer facilities in 1996. The plans for this redevelopment and plans of the building at the point at which it was acquired by the College constitute the larger part of this fonds. Also included are designs for an unrealised project to install a new stained glass window in the upper library.

(For further information regarding the history and redevelopment of the Cockerell Building, see The Caian, 1996; Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College Volume VIII; and the Caius and Cockerell booklet.)

With brief list of plans prepared by the Domestic Bursar's office.

See also

• building manuals held by the Clerk of Works

• the University's plans of the building in the Cambridge University Archive.

Edward Burne-Jones stained glass now on view in the Library Foyer