Pembroke College New Library Project Oxford

Pembroke College, Oxford are considering options for expanding their McGowin
Library and as part of the initial design stage a number of exploratory openings have
been made in the existing modern structure to improve understanding of the survival
of the older fabric behind. Oxford City Council requested that a professional
archaeological company should produce a record of the areas exposed and Oxford
Archaeology (OA) was commissioned to do this.
An initial set of openings was made in December 2018 and a short summary of OA’s
findings was produced in response to this. Then a further investigative opening was
made in February 2019 and the current short document provides a summary of the
observations from this, as well as the earlier holes