Leicester, The Newarke College Of Art And Technology c.1965
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In 1955 the College of Art and Technology was soon to be uplifted to the status of a Polytechnic. This main building, which stands close to the Castle site and the early 15th-century Magazine Gateway, was designed by local architects Everard and Pick (later Pick, Everard, Keay and Gimson) around 1896, with an economic lack of detail. Here a whole range of non-universi- ty subjects could be studied, ranging from architecture to sculp- ture, and from surveying to interior design. Under the building are fragments of the Hospital of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary which was founded in 1330, but in 1355 Henry, Duke of Lancaster, refounded it as a secular college. Notwithstanding this change, it continued to care for fifty poor men, fifty poor women, and ten nursing sisters until it was dissolved in 1548.
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