page_title: Royal College of Science
section_title: The building
hierarchical_section_title: Royal College of Science / The building
caption_attribution_description: English: Surviving fragment of the former Royal College of Science building on Imperial College Road; now the Chemistry (RCS) building.
context_page_description: The Royal College of Science was a higher education institution located in South Kensington; it was a constituent college of Imperial College London from 1907 until it was wholly absorbed by Imperial in 2002. Still to this day, graduates from the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Imperial College London receive an Associateship to the Royal College of Science. Alumni include H. G. Wells and Brian May and are distinguishable by the letters ARCS after their name. Organisations linked with the college include the Royal College of Science Union and the Royal College of Science Association.
context_section_description: In the years following the establishment of the Normal School of Science in 1881, space became pressing as the college expanded, so work began in 1900 on new premises. In 1906 the RCS moved into an imposing new building designed by Sir Aston Webb, which was built in a Classical style and had distinctive brick courses. It ran the length of the road today called Imperial College Road and formerly faced the Imperial Institute. The RCS building featured state of the art chemistry and physics laboratories in the east and west wings respectively, with the library of the Science Museum (later featured in the film of The Ipcress File) located in the central section between them.  
  The building has mostly now been demolished, the western wing in 1961 to make way for a new biochemistry building, and the central section in the mid-1970s; but part of the eastern wing still survives as the Chemistry (RCS) building.
caption: Surviving fragment of the former RCS building
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