Herbert Baker's Architecture: Walking Tour, Cambridge

A HBHT Exclusive Friends' event: explore Baker’s designs at Downing College and Scott Polar Research institute with expert tour guides Herbert Baker Heritage Trust: Walking Tour of Herbert Baker's architecture, Cambridge Our first exclusive Friends’ event will begin with a tour of Downing College, where SIr Herbert Baker and his partner, Alexander Scott, designed the north range of the College Buildings. After time to reflect in Downing Chapel, the tour will move on to the Scott Polar Research Institute, designed by Baker as a centre of excellence for study of the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Here we will see Charles Wheeler’s decorative sculpture and the bronze statue ‘Youth’ by sculptor Kathleen Scott, widow of Captain Robert Falcon Scott. The tour will be lead by researcher Jake Bransgrove, sculpture historian Dr Sarah Crellin and staff of SPRI.