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3 unusual facts about Little Dean's Yard


Little Dean's Yard

College to the East was designed by Burlington, with Christopher Wren's approval after his own design was rejected.

On the North side of Yard is Ashburnham House, built by Inigo Jones or his pupil John Webb, on the site of the mediæval Prior's House, parts of which can still be seen.

Tristram Jones-Parry

He was depicted as "an excellent leader and educator, who devoted his time entirely for the sake of education rather than to building excessive relationship with external high-society figures, who bears a warm heart under a stern appearance, who will always be remembered for picking up rubbish from the Little Dean's Yard ground."


Alan Powers

He has curated several popular exhibitions, including Modern Britain 1929-39 Design Museum, 1999, Serge Chermayeff (Kettle's Yard), 2001, Eric Ravilious (Imperial War Museum), 2003 and Mind into Matter (De La Warr Pavilion), 2009.

Chedham's Yard

Chedham's Yard is a collection of workshops, garden and visitor centre located in Wellesbourne, Warwickshire.

Leah's Yard

By 1905, the workshops around the courtyard of Leah’s Yard were occupied by eighteen Little mesters whose trades included dram flask manufacturer, hollow ware and silver buffers, palette knife makers, steel fork manufacturer, silver ferrule maker, brass and nickel silver turners, electroplate producer and a cutler.

Victor Burgin

In 1986, Burgin was nominated for the Turner Prize for his exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Kettle's Yard Gallery in Cambridge and for a collection of his theoretical writings (The End of Art Theory) and a monograph of his visual work (Between).


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