Welcome to UCL and the Department of Chemical Engineering.
The self-guided tour will take you to some of the main points of interest on the Bloomsbury campus.
Follow the route on the map below and see the corresponding numbered section for more information.
Alternatively, if you have access to a smartphone, the UCL Audio Tour will enable you to explore the rich history of
the university's Bloomsbury campus. Information on how to access the Audio Tour can be found at
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/ucl-audio-tour.
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1. Main Quad
Starting with your back to the Front Lodge and main gates, you are now facing the domed Wilkins Building, which
houses UCL’s Main Library.
UCL’s neo-Grecian central portico is its most famous landmark, and generally recognised as the greatest work of
William Wilkins. It is certainly regarded as more architecturally distinguished than the National Gallery on Trafalgar
Square which he built several years later. The main entrance to the portico is at the top of a wide staircase under a
ten-column Corinthian portico topped by an elegant dome. Behind the portico is UCL’s main library and a gallery of
sculptures and reliefs by John Flaxman. Work on the portico was begun in 1826, but not completed until 1829, by
which time academic sessions were already underway in UCL.
Behind you across Gower Street is the red-brick Cruciform Building, formerly University College Hospital and now
home to the Royal Free and University College Medical School (RF&UCMS) and the Wolfson Institute for
Biomedical Research.
On your right, behind the Front Lodge is the Student Centre which is part of UCL's Student Support and Wellbeing
services and offers information and support to students enrolled on programmes of study at UCL and UCL alumni.
2. The Front Quadrangle
Walk across the Front Quadrangle towards the Portico and Wilkins Building. On your right is the Chadwick
Building, home to the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Geomatic Engineering and the Centre
for Transport Studies.
On the left across the grass is the Slade School of Fine Art (please note the Slade studios are private working
spaces and are not open to the public.)
Walk diagonally to your left across the Front Quadrangle. Enter the door on the far left of the Wilkins Building, into
the North Cloisters.
3. North Cloisters
On your left as you enter the North Cloisters is the Housman Room, a staff common room.
Turn right and walk through the North Cloisters, through the double doors and past the main library until you reach
the Octagon.
4. Octagon and South Cloisters
Upon arriving in the Octagon, notice the steps on your left, which lead up to the Jeremy Bentham Room, one of
several study areas around College where students can socialise, study and eat.
Now walk straight ahead into the South Cloisters. On the left is the roof garden and the UCL Japan monument.
5. Jeremy Bentham
At the end of the South Cloisters are the Koptos Lions. These lions, believed to have been carved between 3100
and 2686 BC, are from the Early Dynastic temple at Koptos, a site near the town of Qift, on the east bank of the
Nile north of Luxor. Following excavation, the fragments of the lions found their way into the collection of Sir Henry
Wellcome, and the Wellcome Institute returned them to UCL in 1980.
To the left is the embalmed body of Jeremy Bentham, whose utilitarian philosophy influenced the founders of UCL
– Thomas Campbell, a poet, and Henry Brougham, a lawyer.
Now walk past the lions on your left, and turn right into the South Wing.
6. South Wing
As you enter the South Wing you will see on the right the corridor of the Registry, with offices for student financial
support, admissions, examinations, etc.
Go straight ahead down the stairs. In front of you is the UCL Shop. At the bottom of the stairs turn right through
the double doors leading outside into the South Junction.
Immediately in front of you is the Andrew Huxley Building housing the Faculty Offices for Arts and Humanities, and
Social and Historical Sciences, as well as Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience Laboratories.
Turn right and walk ahead towards the School of Physiology archway.
7. Science Library and Foster Court
Walk straight ahead under the Physiology Arch. On the right is the DMS Watson Science library which also gives
access to the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.
Opposite the Science Library is Foster Court, location of the Departments of English, Italian, French, Spanish and
Latin American Studies, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and home to European Social and Political Studies.
Continue walking straight ahead to the end of Malet Place.
8. Malet Place
At the end of Malet Place on the left is the Department of Anthropology, and on the right is the Roberts Building
and Engineering Front Building.
The Department of Chemical Engineering is based in the Roberts Building and is open to visitors from 10am to
12.30pm and from 1.30pm to 4pm Monday to Friday. The departmental computer clusters and Departmental
Office is based on the 2nd floor. However, it may not be possible for the Admissions Tutor or Teaching & Learning
administrators to meet with you.
Unfortunately, the Teaching Laboratories are being refurbished so these are not currently accessible.
Return to Malet Place and walk out of the gates at the end. Opposite is a bookshop, and to the left of that is the
University of London Union.
Turn left out of Malet Place into Byng Place. Walk past the Church and turn left into Gordon
Square.
9. Gordon Street
As you walk along Gordon Square you will see on your right one of several green spaces favoured by students
and staff in close proximity to the campus. Also close by are Tavistock Square and Russell Square. To your right
across the Square are the History of Art Department, and the UCL Careers Service.
Along Gordon Square you will pass the following Departments on your left: Scandinavian Studies, German,
Philosophy, Phonetics and Linguistics, History, and Science and Technology Studies. On the right at the end of
the Square is the Institute of Archaeology, and next to that, Gordon House, home to the Department of Greek and
Latin.
10. The UCL Bloomsbury Theatre & Student Union
Continue along Gordon Street. You will pass an entrance to the campus on your left, followed by the UCL
Bloomsbury Theatre building which also houses Bloomsbury Fitness, the UCL Union fitness centre and the Clubs
& Societies Centre. Opposite is the Christopher Ingold building, home to the Department of Chemistry.
Next to the UCL Bloomsbury Theatre is the London Centre for Nanotechnology building and on the corner of
Gordon Street and Gower Place is the UCL Student Union (UCLU). Opposite the Union is the Bartlett – Faculty of
the Built Environment.
11. Gower Place
With your back to the Union, look across the street diagonally to the left, to the corner of Endsleigh Gardens.
There you will see Drayton House, home to the Department of Economics and the Medical School Administration.
12. Gower Place to Gower Street
Turn back to the face the Union and walk down Gower Place towards Gower Street. On the left at 3 Gower Place
is the UCL Health Centre. There is a doctors’ and a dental surgery for use by students. On the corner of Gower
Place and Gower Street on the left hand side is the Language Centre, where students can make use of audio and
visual language resources, and register for language evening classes.
Chemical Engineering Teaching and Learning Team contact details
Senior Teaching and Learning Administrator
Teaching and Learning Administrator
www.ucl.ac.uk/chemeng
Caroline Milton
Agata Blaszczyk
c.milton@ulc.ac.uk
a.blaszczyk@ucl.ac.uk
0207 679 7368
0207 679 3825