Notable Architecture
The skyline of Leicester University is punctuated by three distinctive, towering, buildings from the 1960s: the Department of Engineering, the Attenborough tower and the Charles Wilson building.
The University's Engineering Building was the first major building by important British architect James Stirling. It comprises workshops and laboratories at ground level, and a tower containing offices and lecture theatres. It was completed in 1963 and is notable for the way in which its external form reflects its internal functions. The very compact campus contains a wide range of twentieth century architecture, though the oldest building, the Fielding Johnson building, dates from 1837. The Attenborough Tower houses the tallest working paternoster in the UK and is undergoing extensive renovation.
Leicester's halls of residence are also worthy of mention in their own right: many of the halls (nearly all in prosperous, leafy, Oadby) date from the early 1900s and were the homes of Leicester’s wealthy industrialists.
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The Engineering Building, designed by James Stirling, James Gowan and Frank Newby
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The Physics and Astronomy building, part of a larger complex by Leslie Martin
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The brutalist Charles Wilson Building by Denys Lasdun
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Eye of Time sundial
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Vaughan College, the university's adult education college, is Grade II listed and faces the Jewry Wall Roman ruins
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Astronomical clock
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