Standing Cambridge: Understanding Buildings in a Historic City

Schedule

Sat Mar 14 2026 at 09:00 am to 04:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Cripps Lecture Theatre. Magdalene College | Cambridge, EN

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CAS spring conference with insights on Cambridge’s historic buildings, from Castle to Senate House, exploring materials and landmarks.
About this Event

CAS Spring 2026 conference brings together fourteen architectural historians, archaeologists, a conservation architect and a data specialist speakers (including Alexandrina Buchanan, Craig Cessford, Elizabeth Deans, John Goodall, and Oliver Caroe), to offer fresh looks at historic buildings and sites in the city; topics range from materials, to different historical perspectives on well known buildings from Cambridge Castle to Senate House and the Cripps Buildings in St John’s College, and the perspectives of different archaeologists and building historians including Cyril Fox, Willis & Clark and Nikolaus Pevsner. The event is organised by Jeremy Musson FSA and is chaired by Prof Simon Stoddart, president of CAS.

Ten Fox Bursary grant-funded free student tickets are available, contact [email protected]

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Cripps Lecture Theatre. Magdalene College, 1-3 Chesterton Rd, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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