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Yates Thompson library
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Basil Champneys was Newnham's architect from 1873 to 1913. During that period, the College grew from the original building "Newnham Hall" to a total of six major buildings, plus the Laboratory and the Yates Thompson Library.
All buildings are in the so-called "Queen Anne" style, with lots of red brick, white-painted sash windows, curly pedimented gables, steep roofs and curving bay windows. In "A room of One's Own", Virginia Woolf describes how "The gardens [...] lay before me in the spring twilight, wild and open, and in the long grass, sprinkled and carelessly flung, were daffodils and bluebells, not orderly perhaps at the best of times, and now wind-blown and waving as they tugged at their roots. The windows of the building, curved like ships' windows among generous waves of red brick, changed from lemon to silver under the flight of the quick spring clouds."
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Clough Hall
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