40-530: Pembroke College may refer to: Pembroke College, Cambridge Pembroke College, Oxford Pembroke College (Brown University) , the former women's college University of North Carolina at Pembroke , formerly known as Pembroke State College See also [ edit ] Pembroke University , fictional setting for Netflix series The Chair , referred to in some sources as Pembroke College Pembroke School (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
80-401: A manciple , a cook, a barber and a laundress. Both the founding of the college and the building of the city's first college Chapel (1355) required the grant of a papal bull . The original court was the university's smallest at only 95 feet (29 m) by 55 feet (17 m), but was enlarged to its current size in the nineteenth century by demolishing the south range. The college's gatehouse
120-415: A bequest of £34 million from the estate of American inventor and Pembroke alumnus Ray Dolby , thought to be the largest single donation to a college in the history of Cambridge University. The first buildings comprised a single court (now called Old Court) containing all the component parts of a college – chapel, hall, kitchen and buttery, master's lodgings, students' rooms – and the statutes provided for
160-538: A body of students and fellows. The statutes were notable in that they both gave preference to students born in France who had already studied elsewhere in England, and that they required students to report fellow students if they indulged in excessive drinking or visited disreputable houses. The college was later renamed Pembroke Hall, and finally became Pembroke College in 1856. Marie was closely involved with College affairs in
200-580: A flat ceiling and add two storeys of sets above. The wall between the Hall and the Fellows' Parlour was taken down, and the latter made into a High Table dais. A new Senior Parlour was then created on the ground floor of Hitcham Building. The remodelling work was completed in 1949 when Murray Easton replaced the Gothic tracery of the windows with a simpler design in the style of the medieval Hall. In 1933 Maurice Webb built
240-523: A great Chapel in his former college. The resulting Chapel was consecrated on St Matthew's Day, 1665, and the eastern end was extended by George Gilbert Scott in 1880, when it was consecrated on the Feast of the Annunciation. An increase in membership over the last 150 years saw a corresponding increase in building activity. The Hall was rebuilt in 1875–1876 to designs by Alfred Waterhouse after he had declared
280-576: A large Norman-style arched doorway and a refectory . Denny became a hospital for sick members of the Order in the mid-13th century. By the end of that century, the Knights had lost their power, and in 1308 King Edward II had all the members of the Order arrested and imprisoned for alleged heresy , confiscating their property. Denny was then given to the Knights Hospitaller , who took no active interest in
320-469: A late Baroque style, the principal function of which was to act as a bridge by which undergraduates might cross the Master's forecourt at first-floor level from Pitt Building to New Court without leaving the college or trespassing in what was then the Fellows' Garden. In 1926, as the Fellows had become increasingly disenchanted with Waterhouse's Hall, Maurice Webb was brought in to remove the open roof, put in
360-522: A member of the de Châtillon family of France, founded Pembroke College, Cambridge. On Christmas Eve 1347, Edward III granted Marie de St Pol, widow of the Earl of Pembroke , the licence for the foundation of a new educational establishment in the young university at Cambridge. The Hall of Valence Mary ("Custos & Scolares Aule Valence Marie in Cantebrigg'"), as it was originally known, was thus founded to house
400-460: A mile to the northeast) in the 1150s, at the suggestion of Conan IV, Duke of Brittany . They built a church and monastery, called Denny Priory , which opened in 1159. The crossing and transepts are the only parts of the original abbey that remain today. In 1169 the monks returned to Ely and the site was transferred to the Knights Templar . The Templars built a number of additions, including
440-507: A new Master's Lodge in the south-east corner of the College gardens, on land acquired from Peterhouse in 1861. Following the war, further accommodation was created with the construction in 1957 of Orchard Building, so called because it stands on part of the Foundress's orchard. Finally, in a move to accommodate the majority of junior members on the College site rather than in hostels in the town, in
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#1732855596731480-519: A semester (mid-January to mid-June), or part of the summer, in Cambridge. The Spring Semester Programme is a competitive programme for academically outstanding students who wish to follow a regular Cambridge degree course as fully matriculated members of the University. There are around thirty places each year. In the summer the college offers the eight-week Pembroke Cambridge Summer Programme. As well as
520-471: A succession of three different religious orders . The site is a scheduled ancient monument . The church and refectory buildings survive and are Grade I listed buildings . Also on the site is a barn built in the 17th century from stone taken from the abbey. The site, on an ancient road between Cambridge and Ely , was settled by farmers as early as the Roman period. The Domesday Book of 1086 recorded that it
560-471: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Pembroke College, Cambridge Pembroke College (officially "The Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College or Hall of Valence-Mary") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge , England . The college is the third-oldest college of the university and has over 700 students and fellows . It
600-633: Is inhabited by ghosts occupying the Ivy Court. Pembroke College has both graduate and undergraduate students, termed Valencians, after the college's original name, and its recreational rooms named as "parlours" rather than the more standard "combination room". The undergraduate student body is represented by the Junior Parlour Committee (JPC). The graduate community is represented by the Graduate Parlour Committee (GPC). In March 2016,
640-531: Is now in its 67th year. Pembroke College Association Football Club (PCAFC) and Women's Association Football Club (PCWAFC) compete separately in collegiate competitions. Chrembroke Hockey Club (PCHC) compete jointly with Christ's College , and Pirton RUFC, the rugby union team, are merged with Girton College . Female undergraduates were first admitted to the college in 1984. Pembroke is the only Cambridge college to have an International Programmes Department, providing opportunities for international students to spend
680-400: Is one of the university's larger colleges, with buildings from almost every century since its founding, as well as extensive gardens. Its members are termed "Valencians". The college's current master is Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury . Pembroke has a level of academic performance among the highest of all the Cambridge colleges; in 2013, 2014, 2016, and 2018 Pembroke was placed second in
720-546: Is the oldest in Cambridge. The original Chapel now forms the Old Library and has a striking seventeenth-century plaster ceiling, designed by Henry Doogood, showing birds flying overhead. Around the Civil War , one of Pembroke's fellows and Chaplain to the future Charles I , Matthew Wren , was imprisoned by Oliver Cromwell . On his release after eighteen years, he fulfilled a promise by hiring his nephew Christopher Wren to build
760-580: The Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women there was named in honour of Pembroke College and the history of women's efforts to gain access to higher education. Denny Abbey Denny Abbey is a former abbey near Waterbeach , about 6 miles (10 km) north of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire , England. It is now the Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey . The monastery was inhabited by
800-576: The Tompkins Table . Pembroke contains the first chapel designed by Sir Christopher Wren and is one of only six Cambridge colleges to have educated a British prime minister, in Pembroke's case William Pitt the Younger . The college library, with a Victorian neo-gothic clock tower, has an original copy of the first encyclopaedia to contain printed diagrams. Marie de St Pol , Countess of Pembroke (1303–1377),
840-578: The University of California . Pembroke College in Brown University , the former women's college at Brown University in the United States, was named for the principal building on the women's campus, Pembroke Hall, which was itself named in honour of the Pembroke College (Cambridge) alumnus Roger Williams , a co-founder of Rhode Island . In 1865 Pembroke College, Cambridge donated land for
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#1732855596731880-515: The 1990s Eric Parry designed a new range of buildings on the site of the Master's Lodge, with a new Lodge at the west end. "Foundress Court" was opened in 1997 in celebration of the college's 650th Anniversary. In 2001 the Library was extended to the east and modified internally. In 2017, Pembroke College launched a new campaign of extension called the "Time and The Place" (or the Mill Lane project), on
920-404: The 30 years until her death and burial at Denny Abbey , to the north of Cambridge, in 1377. She seems to have been something of a disciplinarian: the original Foundation documents had strict penalties for drunkenness and lechery, required that all students' debts were settled within two weeks of the end of term, and gave strict limits on numbers at graduation parties. In 2015, the college received
960-477: The Farmland Museum, who manage the abbey on behalf of English Heritage. The Farmland Museum, which opened in 1997, has a shop, café and an education centre, running courses for local schools. Farm buildings including the 17th-century barn have been converted into displays of local history and farming, including a 1940s farm labourer's cottage, a 1930s village shop, and displays on local crafts and skills. Many of
1000-529: The Junior Parlour Committee was featured in national newspapers after it cancelled the theme of an "Around The World in 80 Days" dance party. There are many sports and societies organised by members of the college. Amongst the most established are Pembroke College Boat Club and the Pembroke Players , the college's dramatic society which has been made famous by alumni including Peter Cook , Eric Idle , Tim Brooke-Taylor , Clive James and Bill Oddie , and
1040-512: The Lord build the house, their labour is but vain that build it"). Building work continued into the 20th century with W. D. Caröe as architect. He added Pitt Building (M staircase) between Ivy Court and Waterhouse's Lodge, and extended New Court with the construction of O staircase on the other side of the Lodge. He linked his two buildings with an arched stone screen, Caröe Bridge, along Pembroke Street in
1080-484: The abbey passed into private ownership. In 1663 the Abbey estate was modestly valued at £58.4s.4d, as listed in the will of a Richard Kettle. By 1686, Joseph Kettle of Denny Abbey, whose connection to Richard Kettle is unclear, had grown the value over twenty-fold, to £1,223.15s.0d. So it was perhaps Joseph who was responsible for the substantial late 17th-century changes to the farm buildings. The barrister John George Witt
1120-521: The academic content, trips are made to locales such as London , and the programme has a series of formal halls and events such as croquet matches and punting on the River Cam. This is also the programme for which the prestigious Thouron Prize is awarded, fully supporting nine American undergraduates from Harvard , Yale , and UPenn . In addition, there is the Pembroke College, Cambridge 1976 Scholarship, awarded to three outstanding undergraduates from
1160-488: The arms of De Valence (bars), dimidiated with the arms of St. Pol (vair). It is described as : Pembroke holds Formal Hall 4 evenings a week depending on their qualifications: a separate Hall is held for BA students. Students of the college must wear gowns and arrive on time for Latin Grace , which starts the dinner. Like many Cambridge colleges, Pembroke also has an annual May Ball . According to popular legends, Pembroke
1200-472: The formation of the Suffolk memorial to Prince Albert . The land at Framlingham in the county of Suffolk was used to build a school, The Albert Memorial College. The school today is known as Framlingham College and one of its seven houses is named Pembroke House in recognition of the contribution Pembroke College has made to the school. In 1981, a decade after the merger of Pembroke College into Brown University,
1240-490: The medieval Hall unsafe. As well as the Hall, Waterhouse designed a new range of rooms, Red Buildings (1871–1872), in French Renaissance style, designed a new Master's Lodge on the site of Paschal Yard (1873, later to become N staircase), pulled down the old Lodge and the south range of Old Court to open a vista to the chapel, and finally designed a new Library (1877–1878) in the continental Gothic style. The construction of
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1280-421: The new library was undertaken by Rattee and Kett . Waterhouse was dismissed as architect in 1878 and succeeded by George Gilbert Scott , who, after extending the chapel, provided additional accommodation with the construction of New Court in 1881, with letters on a series of shields along the string course above the first floor spelling out the text from Psalm 127:1, "Nisi Dominus aedificat domum…" ("Except
1320-462: The old farm tools and machinery came from a museum at nearby Haddenham which closed. It was at Haddenham where interviews were made in the 1970s with local farming people, recording their stories dating back to the beginning of the 20th century. The whole site, known as The Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey, is open from April to October, and there are regular special event days. Note: The spellings 'Denny' and 'Denney' appear with equal frequency in
1360-576: The other side of Trumpington Street. The project is to enlarge the size of the college by a third, with new social spaces, rooms and offices. Pembroke's enclosed grounds include garden areas. Highlights include "The Orchard" (a patch of semi-wild ground in the centre of the college), an impressive row of Plane Trees and a bowling green , re-turfed in 1996, which is reputed to be among the oldest in continual use in Europe. The arms of Pembroke College were officially recorded in 1684. The formal blazon combines
1400-709: The precise location of her grave is now lost. A list of the Abbesses of Denny: The abbey was closed in 1536, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries , and was once more taken over by the Crown. The last of the nuns had left within two years. The Abbess's lodge, originally built for the Countess, was retained as a farmhouse, and the Refectory as a barn, but the nave was demolished. In 1628
1440-599: The property. In 1324 it was taken back by the Crown. In 1327 King Edward III gave the Priory to a young widow, Marie de St Pol , Countess of Pembroke (1303-1377), known for her founding of Pembroke College, Cambridge . Countess Marie turned what had been the Abbey church into her lodgings. She had a new church built and gave the remainder of the priory to the Franciscan Poor Clares . This community of nuns moved from their flood-prone Waterbeach Abbey . The priory
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1520-459: Was born at Denny Abbey in 1836. Pembroke College, Cambridge , which had also been founded by the Countess of Pembroke in 1347, bought the site in 1928. The abbey, nuns' refectory and surrounding land remained a farm until they were leased in 1947 to the Ministry of Works , which later transferred them to English Heritage . The abbey, partially restored in the 1960s, is open to the public alongside
1560-514: Was expanded in this period, with comfortable quarters for the Countess, who never entered the Poor Clares, and spartan accommodation for the nuns. The priory began to be called Denny Abbey during this period, despite the fact that the term "abbey" is never used by the nuns of that Order. The Countess of Pembroke died in 1377 and was buried before the high altar of the nuns' church in Denny Abbey, but
1600-630: Was owned by Edith the Fair (also known as Swanneck ), the consort of King Harold , in 1066. It was owned subsequently by the Breton lord, Alan, 1st Earl of Richmond . The place-name "Denny" is first attested in Templar records of 1176, where it appears as Daneya and Deneia . The name is thought to mean "Danes' Island". A group of Benedictine monks , dependent upon Ely Abbey , moved here from their water-logged monastery at Elmeney (a vanished settlement about
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