Overview
The main Pembroke site is based around three principal quadrangles - Old Quad, Chapel Quad and North Quad – grouped around which are a series of 'staircases' providing accommodation for Fellows and students, administrative offices, and teaching rooms.
Old Quad, as you enter Pembroke through the Lodge, dates from the 1600s and includes an entrance to the 15th century Broadgates Hall. The south side of the quad was built in the 1620s on the City Wall and the east side was added in 1673. Its gravel surface was replaced by a lawn in the late 1920s, and early 1930s.
An archway leads from Old Quad to Chapel Quad which contains the Chapel (1732) and the Hall (1848). Chapel Quad was known as ‘New Quad’ or, sometimes, ‘the Grass Quad’, until North Quad was opened in 1962. The range opposite the Chapel was completed in 1846 and was then known as the 'New Buildings'; it includes student accommodation, Fellows' rooms and the Senior Common Room (SCR). In October 2009 it was named the Robert Stevens building in honour of Professor Robert Stevens, Master 1993-2001.
In the north-east corner of Chapel Quad is the entrance through to the North Quad, which was formed by the closure of Beef Lane and the incorporation into the College of a row of houses on Pembroke Street.
The main site is completed by the smaller Library Quad, reached through a passage from Old Quad and giving access to the McGowin Library and the Almshouses which incorporate the Master's Lodgings.