Memorial Court
Examples of Rooms in Memorial Court: M12 P1 R4 R9 S1 Gyp Rooms
The complex known as Memorial Court actually comprises three courts: Memorial Court, Ashby Court, and Thirkill Court.
Memorial Court, including the section later renamed Ashby Court, was built between 1922 and 1933, and designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, who was also the architect for the main University Library, which stands behind the Court (those of you from the Liverpool area may also be interested to know that he designed Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral). Although discussions had begun before the First World War, the eventual building was conceived as a memorial to those who had lost their lives in the Great War. Thirkill Court was added to the south side of Memorial Court in 1953-55, financed by old members of the College and named after Henry Thirkill, Master from 1939 to 1958.
Clare's own Forbes Mellon Library, splitting the original Memorial Court into two (and hence creating Asby Court, named after Eric Ashby, Thirkill's successor as Master), was completed in 1986, also with money raised by an appeal to old members and friends of the College. A new Law reading room was opened in Ashby Court in 1999, named after one of Clare's Law Fellows, Professor Kurt Lipstein - who sadly died in December 2006.