Description
The Gibbs Building is the earliest building on the College site besides Kings College Chapel. It comprises staircases E, F, G and H.
The Gibbs Building is located in Kings College, Cambridge, England and is a Grade I listed building.
The Gibbs’s building is named after its architect, James Gibbs, whose buildings include St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London and the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford.
The Gibbs building is built of brick and Portland stone, except for the foundation stone.
When the Chapel stonemasons heard of Henry VI’s deposition, they immediately abandoned their work while sawing a stone in half.
That stone remained where it was for 260 years, in the space then known as the ‘Chapel yard’, until it was placed in the foundation of the Gibbs building. This stone can be seen in David Loggan’s engraving of the south front of the Chapel.
This image is in black and white 16:9 ratio and features the groundsman mowing the lovely lawn of Kings College.
Source: Kings Cambridge
Image size: 4687×2394
File size: 1.6MB
DPI: 240
Bit: 24 bit
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Edited: Yes. Adobe Lightroom CC
Location: Gibbs Building, Kings College Cambridge
Year took: 2020
Copyright owner: J. J. Williamson
