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Buildings & Gardens

Fawcett Building

Architect:   Elizabeth Scott
Completed:  1938
Accommodation:  34 undergraduate rooms

 

Fawcett Building from Pfeiffer Arch, with Sidgwick Annexe seen just to the left of the picture.

 

The building is named after Philippa Garrett Fawcett, who was placed "above the Senior Wrangler" in part 1 of the mathematical tripos in 1890, and her mother Millicent Garrett Fawcett, the distinguished suffragist.

View from Sidgwick Avenue Porters' Lodge, Sidgwick Avenue ...seen through gates

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