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The Founder's Building is the original building of Royal Holloway College, University of London (RHUL), in Egham, Surrey, England. It is an example of French-Renaissance-style architecture in the United Kingdom, having been modelled on French chateaus such as Château de Chambord. [1] Today it is the dominant building on the campus.
Royal Holloway College, originally a women-only college, was founded by the Victorian entrepreneur Thomas Holloway in 1879 on the Mount Lee Estate in Egham. [7] The founding of the college was brought about after Holloway, seeking to fulfil a philanthropic gesture, [8] began a public debate through The Builder [8] regarding 'How best to spend a quarter of a million or more', at which point his ...
Royal Holloway College, Egham, Surrey, which was built 1879–87. A short distance away from the Sanatorium, it was also commissioned by Thomas Holloway. [18] Now known as Founder's Building, it is the main building of a major college of the University of London; its cafe/bar is named "Crosslands". [19]
The present house dates back to 1737, although its fronts are largely c. 1830.. In 1869, the property was owned by Thomas Holloway, [3] philanthropist and founder of two large institutions which he built nearby: Holloway Sanatorium in Virginia Water, Surrey, and Royal Holloway College, now known as Royal Holloway, University of London in Englefield Green.
Royal Holloway acquired the site in July 2016, but leased it back to P&G and Coty. According to current planning application with Runnymede, the plans are for the demolition of existing buildings and erection of purpose built student accommodation up to 1,400 study bedrooms, energy centre and ancillary uses, including a pedestrian footbridge over the railway, and associated landscaping - ("a ...
The ISG includes the Smart Card and IoT Security Centre (previously named Smart Card Centre, SCC) that was founded in October 2002 by Royal Holloway, Vodafone and Giesecke & Devrient, for training and research in the field of Smart cards, applications and related technologies: its research topics include RFID, Near Field Communication (NFC ...
The imposing exteriors and interiors have a sister building, the Royal Holloway College about a mile north; Sir Nikolaus Pevsner regarded the two as the "summit of High Victorian design". In 1948 the site was transferred to the National Health Service. In the year 2000, after more than a decade of neglect, the buildings were restored and some ...
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