# Free School Lane

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{{Short description|Street in Cambridge, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2017}}
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{{Infobox street
| image       = Free School Lane.JPG
| coordinates = 
| namesake    = [Free School](/source/Stephen_Perse)
| terminus_a  = [Bene't Street](/source/Bene't_Street)
| direction_a = North
| terminus_b  = [Pembroke Street](/source/Pembroke_Street%2C_Cambridge)
| direction_b = South
| north       = 
}}
'''Free School Lane''' is a historic street in central [Cambridge](/source/Cambridge), [England](/source/England) which includes important buildings of [University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge).<ref>[http://www.cambridge.gov.uk/public/pdfs/Free%20School%20Lane.pdf Free School Lane] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927073951/http://www.cambridge.gov.uk/public/pdfs/Free%20School%20Lane.pdf |date=27 September 2011 }}, [Cambridge City Council](/source/Cambridge_City_Council).</ref><ref>[https://www.cambridgeonline.co.uk/streets/Free_School_Lane/ Free School Lane], [https://www.cambridgeonline.co.uk/ Cambridge Online].</ref> It is the location of the [Whipple Museum of the History of Science](/source/Whipple_Museum_of_the_History_of_Science), the [Department of History and Philosophy of Science](/source/Department_of_History_and_Philosophy_of_Science%2C_Cambridge) (HPS,) the [University](/source/University_of_Cambridge)'s faculty of Social and Political Sciences, and is the original site of the [Engineering Department](/source/Department_of_Engineering%2C_University_of_Cambridge), and the Physics Department's [Cavendish Laboratory](/source/Cavendish_Laboratory). At the northern end is [Bene't Street](/source/Bene't_Street) and at the southern end is [Pembroke Street](/source/Pembroke_Street%2C_Cambridge). To the east is the [New Museums Site](/source/New_Museums_Site) of the University. To the west is [Corpus Christi College](/source/Corpus_Christi_College%2C_Cambridge).

==The Free School==
The name of the street comes from the "Free School" which was established in the 17th century by [Dr Stephen Perse](/source/Dr_Stephen_Perse) who left money in his will to educate 100 boys from Cambridge, [Barnwell](/source/Barnwell%2C_Cambridgeshire), [Chesterton](/source/Chesterton%2C_Cambridge) and [Trumpington](/source/Trumpington%2C_Cambridgeshire).  This school later became the first site of [The Perse School](/source/The_Perse_School) (now in [Hills Road](/source/Hills_Road%2C_Cambridge)).  The Whipple Museum is situated in the original school hall.

==Friar House==
thumb|upright|Friar House at the northern end of Free School Lane
While at Cambridge University, [Clive James](/source/Clive_James) and [Germaine Greer](/source/Germaine_Greer) lived at Friar House,<ref>Graham Chainey, [https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=052147681X ''A Literary History of Cambridge''], 1995, {{isbn|052147681X}}, p.281</ref> an early-17th-century Grade II [listed building](/source/listed_building) with a [timber frame](/source/timber_frame) and [pargeting](/source/pargeting) at the corner of [Bene't Street](/source/Bene't_Street) and Free School Lane.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cambridge.gov.uk/media/2860/historic-core-appraisal-2016-benet-street.pdf |title=Bene't Street |access-date=14 October 2018 |archive-date=14 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014165220/https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/media/2860/historic-core-appraisal-2016-benet-street.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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Category:Streets in Cambridge
Category:Schools in Cambridge
Category:History of Cambridge
Category:Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

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