The bridge over Brewer Street is the first over-street bridge since the iconic Bridge of Sighs.
A transformation of Pembroke College's physical site was officially launched by HRH The Duke of Kent KG this morning, marking the formal unveiling of new quadrangles and buildings and the first over-street bridge in Oxford since the iconic Bridge of Sighs. Pembroke, until now one of Oxford's physically smaller colleges, has constructed new buildings and two new quadrangles right on its existing location, representing an expansion of a sort very rarely possible for a college situated in central Oxford. Undergraduates will now be able to live in college premises for all years of study, most on the college's extended main site, while postgraduates also benefit from more rooms. As well as student accommodation, the new buildings provide seminar and meeting rooms, a multi-purpose auditorium, a purpose-built art gallery, outdoor social spaces, and a café. A footbridge over Brewer Street connects the new quads directly to the existing historic Chapel Quad. It is the only bridge in Oxford to span the remains of the ancient Oxford city wall, and the first over-street bridge for a century - since Hertford College's Venetian-style Bridge of Sighs, constructed in 1914. The development has helped to re-draw the appearance of an undistinguished part of St Ebbe's in Oxford, providing a sympathetic facelift to an area of defunct industrial buildings, warehouses and vacant sites.
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