The Bull Hotel, Cambridge

The Bull Hotel
The Bull Hotel, Cambridge is located in Central Cambridge
The Bull Hotel, Cambridge
General information
Location68 Trumpington Street, Cambridge, England
Coordinates52°12′12″N 0°07′03″E / 52.2034°N 0.1174°E / 52.2034; 0.1174
Completed1828

The Bull Hotel was a historic hotel located at 68 Trumpington Street, Cambridge, England, next to St Catharine's College.[1]

The entrance porch on Trumpington Street

The four-storey hotel was built in 1828, and occupies the site of an inn previously known as the Black Bull, which was in existence as early as the fifteenth century.[2] The Black Bull was bequeathed to St Catharine's College in 1626 and rebuilt in 1828 and opened as a hotel.[3] In 1936 two "acanthus'" type posts were said to flank the stone ashlar porch of the Bull Hotel.[4]

It was one of the top hotels in Cambridge until the Second World War, when in 1941 the hotel became a centre for American serviceman.[3] Photographs taken during the war show an American flag and a British flag on the hotel. At the end of the war the American servicemen established Bull College, named after the hotel and between 1945 and 1946 the hotel functioned as a centre for Russian courses for the British Army, but then merged with St Catharine's.[5]

The building became a Grade II listed building on 26 April 1950.[6][3]

Notable residents

References

  1. ^ Darwin, Charles; Smith, Sydney (22 April 2010). The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1870. Cambridge University Press. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-521-76889-4. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
  2. ^ Cooper, Charles Henry (1866). Memorials of Cambridge. W. Metcalfe. p. 254. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
  3. ^ a b c Roach, J. P. C. (1959). "A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 3: The City and University of Cambridge". Accessed via British History Online. pp. 115–6. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
  4. ^ The Cambridge review. Cambridge Review Committee, St. John's College. 1936. p. 66. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
  5. ^ Bevan, William Ham. "Bull College Cambridge" (PDF). CAM: Cambridge Alumni Magazine. pp. 30–33. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
  6. ^ Historic England. "BULL HOSTEL, ST CATHARINE'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE (Grade II) (1332215)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  7. ^ Woodrow Wilson Papers: Series 1: Diaries and Diary Material, 1876-1924; Diaries, 1876-1904