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In the 21st century, the Great Hall was refurbished and restored. Many original features and styles of the Hall have been restored, including the oak panelling, joinery and the King's College crest. The Grade I listed windows were repaired, and the Grade I listed ceiling and the original column
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There are today a total of eight floors in the King's Building: Basement level, Ground level, Levels 1 to 4, Level 4U and Level 6. The King's Building houses a number of administrative departments (Estates & Facilities Offices, Admissions Office, Accommodation and Cashiers' Office), lecture
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Renovated in 2009, the Anatomy Theatre and Museum is now a facility for teaching, research and performance, and is programmed and managed by King's Cultural Institute. Because many original features of the Anatomy Theatre were still intact, restoration and replacements were carried out. A
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The Great Hall is located on the Ground floor of the King's Building. It is one of the central congregation spaces within the building, and is used for many events and activities, including the annual King's Fellows Dinner, banquetings, examinations, press conferences and presentations.
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theatres (most notably the Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre and Anatomy Lecture Theatre), the College Chapel, the Great Hall, various function rooms (Old Council Room, Committee Room, River Room, Somerset Room, St David's Room), study rooms and a catering outlet.
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technology and digital surround sound was designed, and a projector was installed in the Anatomy Museum. The anatomy professor's office was also stripped back to its original tiles and was converted to a canteen.
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in the course of the college's foundation in 1829. As the founding building, it was built between 1829 and 1831 on land granted to King's College by the government to complete the riverside frontage of
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The Anatomy Theatre and Anatomy Museum are located on Level 6 of the King's Building. The Anatomy Theatre was built in 1927 above the College Chapel. It was originally an institution (
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in 1864, at a cost of just over £7,000. The College Chapel is located on Level 2, which is above the Great Hall. It is accessible via a grand double staircase from the foyer.
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The King's Building Foyer regularly displays free exhibitions in foyer display cases. The exhibitions are curated by
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The College Chapel forms part of the King's building. It was originally designed by Sir Robert Smirke in 1831. The
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at King's, and sometimes co-curated with other organisations outside the College, such as the
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King's Building Foyer is the old entrance hall of the building. Two marble statues of
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are placed in the foyer. They were bequeathed in 1923 by Frida Mond, the wife of
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The entrance of the Grade I listed 19th century King's Building, Strand Campus
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The original chapel was described as a low and broad room "fitted to the
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King's Mascot "Reggie the Lion" in the Foyer of King's Building
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The Grade I listed King's College London Chapel designed by
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Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
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listed building that forms part of the Strand Campus of
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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
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The Embankment terrace entrance to the Strand Campus
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chapel seen today was designed and reconstructed by
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Grade I listed buildings in the City of Westminster
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King's Building, London is located in Central London
Strand
WC2
Coordinates
51°30′41″N 0°06′58″W / 51.51139°N 0.11611°W / 51.51139; -0.11611
Sir Robert Smirke
Grade I listed building
King's College London Strand Campus
Grade I
King's College London
United Kingdom
Sir Robert Smirke
Somerset House
Sappho
Sophocles
Ludwig Mond
Israel Gollancz
King's College London
Sappho
Sappho
Sophocles
Sophocles
Reggie the Lion
King's College London Students' Union
King's College London Archives and Special Collections
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
British Dental Association
Buckingham Palace
John Nash

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