Sherwood Hall is a mixed undergraduate
hall of residence. It provides accommodation for about 267 students. The
hall is named after Sherwood Forest, and was designed by the architects J
Fletcher Watson as part of the 1960s expansion programme on University Park.
Building work started in March 1963 and the hall opened, as a male hall of
residence, in October 1964.
Sherwood Hall was designed as an interpretation of the traditional
collegiate quadrangle, but using contemporary forms and materials. A
distinctive feature is the white painted shiplap weatherboarding, which
gives the hall something of a North American feel. As originally built, the
hall had a single quadrangle of accommodation blocks, with a further
accommodation block and the main hall and library forming a second, but
open-ended, court. Subsequent extensions have transformed this into a second
quadrangle.
For the first twenty-two years of its life, the warden was the late “Bunny”
Chalmers. As of 2006 the current Warden is Dr Antonino La Rocca and the
current JCR President is
Miss Elizabeth Jones
.
