How to find Lecture Room 3 in Lecture Block A on

the Sidgwick Site

This document is for candidates who have been scheduled for tests or Admissions

Assessments in Lecture Room 3 in Lecture Block A on the Sidgwick Site. This is not in King’s College.

We have provided the information below to help you to find the Sidgwick Site and

show you where to go. Please also feel free to ask the King’s students at the

interview helpdesk in King’s bar. A lot of different subjects (but not all subjects) with written tests have these in Lecture Room 3 in Lecture Block A on the Sidgwick Site,

so you may well find others going to the same place for the same time. Don’t be concerned if they are doing different subjects to you.

The Sidgwick Site is a collection of arts faculties (History, English, Law, Economics

etc.) and lecture rooms very near to King’s.

Here is a map showing the route in

red.

You can just see King’s Parade on the far right, where the main

entrance to King’s is.

To get to the Sidgwick site, you

need to go out the back gate of King’s.

There is an entrance to the

Sidgwick Site on West Road.

On the following pages you will find a series of photos showing you the route from King’s bar (where the interview helpdesk is) to Lecture Room 3 in Lecture Block A on the Sidgwick Site.

After this, we have also done the route back in case that helps as well.

The route from King’s bar to Lecture Room 3 in Lecture Block A on the

Sidgwick Site.

When you come out of King’s bar

(where the interview helpdesk is), turn left and head straight down the

path that takes you past the Gibbs Building on your right (the Gibbs

Building is the big white Building)

After you’ve passed the Gibbs Building

on your right, continue straight along the same path – you’re heading for

the bridge over the river.

…then go over the bridge

…and down King’s Avenue, which leads to the back gate of King’s on

Queens’ Road.

…this is what it looks like as you approach the back gate.

Go through onto Queens’ Road.

You’ll see the traffic lights where you need to cross Queens’ Road, just to

the left of King’s back gate.

When you’ve crossed the road, you

will be almost at the right turn onto

West Road.

Turn right onto West Road.

The pavement doesn’t continue long so you will soon need to cross over.

This is what it will look like as you go up West Road.

…and as you keep going up West Road.

You’ll pass a bus stop as you approach

the entrance to the Sidgwick Site.

The Sidgwick Site entrance is immediately before you get to the

distinctive building you can see in this picture (the English Faculty).

At the entrance there are some bollards and a sign which says

‘Sidgwick Site’.

You need to go straight up here, past the English Faculty on your right and

the Alison Richard Building (for HSPS) on your left.

Keep going under the tree

…and past the Law Faculty (with the

glass wall) on your left and the History Faculty (the red brick) on your right.

Ahead, you can see the Raised Faculty

Building where languages are taught (it is a U-shaped Building on concrete

stilts) You’re going to go up the steps and under the Raised Faculty Building

You can check the map as you go past

if you like – the Lecture Block is labelled number 10.

4 and 5 are the History Building and

the Law Faculty that you’ve just gone past.

Go up the steps and under the raised Faculty Building.

You’re heading for the far corner of the grass.

Head for the red dot.

Go under the building again at the far

corner – you can now see Lecture Block A.

It is clearly labelled ‘Lecture Block’.

There are two sides.

Go in the doors on the left side for Lecture Room 3.

The Lecture Room numbers are listed above the door so it will be clear.

This is the Foyer just inside the door – this is where you wait before we call

you into Lecture Room 3.

If you look up the stairs from the foyer, you’ll be able to see the door to

Lecture Room 3 (with a 3 above it).

Please wait down the stairs, in the foyer, though – we will call you into

Lecture Room 3 clearly from 15 minutes before your test (please read

the IMPORTANT INFORMATION about tests and admissions assessments in

Lecture Room 3 page for details of how we will organise it).

The door to Lecture Room 3

The route from Lecture Room 3 in the Lecture Block on the Sidgwick Site to the bar in King’s (where the interview helpdesk is)

After you have come out of Lecture Room 3, go down the stairs to the

Lecture Block foyer and out the doors.

Once outside, go right and forward,

under the Raised Faculty Building and towards the grass that you can

see on the other side.

This way – head for the red brick

building (the History Faculty) that you can just see beyond the Raised

Faculty Building.

Go under the Raised Faculty Building

– head for the red brick (History Faculty).

Out the other side and down a few steps (the steps are hard to see in

this picture, but the bikes are on a lower level).

Go straight down here (between the red brick History Faculty on your left

and the big glass wall of the Law Faculty on your right).

Keep walking straight until you are

out of the Sidgwick Site.

After the Law Faculty, you’ll go past the Alison Richard (HSPS) Building on your right and the English Faculty on your

left.

This is what it looks like as you approach the end of the Sidgwick Site

(at the end of this path where the bollards are – you can just see the bright dots in this picture).

As you come out of the Sidgwick Site, turn right onto West Road.

Straight down West Road, walk past the bus stop.

Keep going – you’re heading for a T

junction.

At the T junction, turn left onto Queens’ Road

As you go around the corner, you

will see the traffic lights where you need to cross Queens’ Road.

King’s back gate is to the left of the

traffic lights, easily visible on the other side of Queens’ Road.

Go into King’s through the back gate.

…and follow the avenue

…which after a while will take you up over the bridge (you’re crossing the

river Cam, which runs through King’s)

Keep following the path straight,

with the back lawn on your left and buildings on your right.

After the back lawn, you will continue straight past the Gibbs

Building (the big white building) on your right

…and into the front court. Keep

going straight down the right side of the front lawn.

The door to the bar (where the

interview helpdesk is) is the last entrance on the right, by the screen

across the front of King’s.