We were given a comprehensive and fascinating tour of the Cripps Building, which I realised was only completed in 1967, five years before I matriculated.  I don’t remember being very aware of it.  It anyway fits pretty discretely into its site in between Thomas Rickman’s New Court and Edwin Lutyens’s building for Magdalene College next door.

We arrived from the east, from the car park, not the sequence of medieval courts.  It has an attractive austerity, the staircases treated in a sculptural way:-

It is all very reticent and carefully considered:-

The college is in the process of relandscaping it, so it is not so easy to get a sense of its larger dimensions:-

Its architect, Philip Powell, was the nicest, most charming and modest of men and the architecture is viewed, rightly, as thoughtful, contextual.  It deserves a close look.