Architecture and Main Buildings
Situated to the north of the main university campus, Trinity's various ivy-clad stone and brick buildings surround a large grassed area, known as the Bulpadock.
The college's main buildings include:
- 1870-2: Leeper Building (formerly the Provost's Lodge)
- 1878: Bishops' Building (named after Charles Perry and James Moorhouse, the first and second Bishops of Melbourne)
- 1880: Dining Hall
- 1883–87: Clarke's Building
- 1914–17: Horsfall Chapel
- 1933: Behan Building (named after John Clifford Valentine Behan, a former warden)
- 1958: Memorial Building (commonly called "Jeopardy")
- 1963–65: Cowan Building
- 1995–96: Evan Burge Building (Library)
- 2006–07: Gourlay Building ("Woodheap")
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