Pembroke College, Cambridge facts for kids
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Old Court, Pembroke College
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Arms of Pembroke College, Cambridge: Arms of Valence (Barry (of ten) argent and azure, an orle of French martlets gules) dimidiating St Pol (Châtillon): (Gules, three pales vair a chief or with a label of three points azure for difference)
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| University | University of Cambridge | |||||||||||
| Location | Trumpington Street (map) | |||||||||||
| Coordinates | 52°12′07″N 0°07′12″E / 52.202°N 0.120°E | |||||||||||
| Full name | The College or Hall of Valence Mary (commonly called Pembroke College) in the University of Cambridge | |||||||||||
| Abbreviation | PEM | |||||||||||
| Founder | Marie de St Pol, Countess of Pembroke | |||||||||||
| Established | 1347 | |||||||||||
| Named after | Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke | |||||||||||
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| Sister college | The Queen's College, Oxford | |||||||||||
| Master | The Lord Smith of Finsbury | |||||||||||
| Undergraduates | 442 | |||||||||||
| Postgraduates | 264 | |||||||||||
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 Location in Central Cambridge
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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 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 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.
Images for kids
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Engraving of Marie de St Pol, foundress of Pembroke College, Cambridge
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Bird's eye view of Pembroke College, Cambridge by David Loggan, published in 1690.
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Pembroke College chapel interior in September 2014
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Library Court
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Pembroke's boathouse
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Pembroke College in Brown University
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The Croquet Lawn in New Court, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott
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The Trumpington Street Façade with the College Chapel on the right, the first building to be built by Sir Christopher Wren
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The Gatehouse is the oldest in Cambridge, dating from the 14th century
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Dining Hall
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See also
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