The Bull Hotel, Cambridge

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The Bull Hotel
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General information
Location68 Trumpington Street, Cambridge, England
Coordinates 52°12′12″N0°07′03″E / 52.2034°N 0.1174°E / 52.2034; 0.1174
Completed1828

The Bull Hotel was a historic hotel located at 68 Trumpington Street, Cambridge, England, next to St Catharine's College. [1]

The entrance porch on Trumpington Street Bull Hostel Entrance.jpg
The entrance porch on Trumpington Street

The four-storey hotel was built in 1828, and occupies the site of an inn previously known as the Black Bull, which was in existence as early as the fifteenth century. [2] The Black Bull was bequeathed to St Catharine's College in 1626 and rebuilt in 1828 and opened as a hotel. [3] In 1936 two "acanthus'" type posts were said to flank the stone ashlar porch of the Bull Hotel. [4]

It was one of the top hotels in Cambridge until the Second World War, when in 1941 the hotel became a centre for American serviceman. [3] Photographs taken during the war show an American flag and a British flag on the hotel. At the end of the war the American servicemen established Bull College, named after the hotel and between 1945 and 1946 the hotel functioned as a centre for Russian courses for the British Army, but then merged with St Catharine's. [5]

The building became a Grade II listed building on 26 April 1950. [6] [3]

Notable residents

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