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Middlesex College
General information
Type	Academic
Architectural style	Collegiate Gothic
Town or city	London, Ontario
Country	Canada
Groundbreaking	1959
Cost	$1,740,000
Owner	University of Western Ontario
Design and construction
Main contractor	Ellis-Don Ltd.

Middlesex College is an academic building located on the campus of the University of Western Ontario. The building is known for its collegiate Gothic architecture, spire, and clock tower. It currently houses the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

Along with University College, the building is one of the most iconic buildings on the University of Western Ontario campus and is heavily used in promotion of the university.

History

The cornerstone for the building was installed in 1959 and the building cost was $1.74 million. Construction was completed by general contractors Ellis-Don Ltd. The building was opened in the fall of 1960. The Department of History was the first faculty housed in the building at this time.

The large clock tower houses five 8-foot diameter bells weighing 400 lbs each, which were tuned to E, B, E, F and G#. The bells were manufactured by Gillett and Johnston. First installed with the clock faces in 1960, the bells were decommissioned in 2007 due to high refurbishment costs.

The building was designed by architect Ronald Murphy.

References

1. "Western Walking Tour pamphlet" (PDF). 2011.
2. staff, Comms (2006-11-09), WWW 1957-9 Plate 94, retrieved 2020-04-04
3. University of Western Ontario (1960). Occidentalia. -- 1960. University of Western Ontario. London : University of Western Ontario.
4. "Timeline: 100 Years of History". www.history.uwo.ca. Retrieved 2020-04-04.
5. staff, Comms (2010-03-12), WWW 1960 32, retrieved 2020-04-04
6. Ashby, James. "The D.B. Weldon Library by Andrews and Murphy: Modern Experiments in a Collegiate Gothic Campus". Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada. 44 (2): 21–40. doi:10.7202/1069482ar – via erudit.

• University of Western Ontario
• Collegiate Gothic architecture
• Gothic Revival architecture in Canada