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The Strand Campus is the original campus of King's. The campus is based around the Grade I listed original King's Building constructed for the college in 1831, designed by Sir Robert Smirke, adjacent to Somerset House and sharing its frontage along the River Thames, including the King's College London Chapel, redesigned in 1864 by Sir George Gilbert Scott.[69] The campus also includes buildings along the adjacent Surrey Street, the Strand Building and the east wing of Somerset House. Beyond this contiguous complex of buildings, the campus also includes Bush House on the opposite side of the Strand and the Maughan Library on Chancery Lane.[70] The nearby Virginia Woolf Building was also part of the Strand Campus area until the lease expired in autumn 2025.[71]

The King's College London Chapel inside the King's Building, redesigned in 1864 by Sir George Gilbert Scott

The Strand Campus houses the arts and science faculties of King's, including the faculties of arts and humanities, law, natural and mathematical sciences, social science and public policy, and business, as well as the King's Foundation.[70]

King's College London Students' Union runs the Shack café and the Vault bar in Bush House on the Strand Campus,[72][73] and has two contact hubs on the campus, also in Bush House.[74]

Guy's Campus

Main article: Guy's Campus

Guy's Campus is close to London Bridge, right next to The Shard, and it is adjacent to Guy's Hospital. It is home to the faculty of life sciences and medicine (also at the Waterloo Campus), the dental institute, and the institute of psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience (also at the Denmark Hill Campus).[75]

The Hodgkin Building, Guy's Campus

Buildings include: the Henriette Raphael building,[75] the Hodgkin building[75] and Shepherd's House.[75] The campus is also home to the Gordon Museum of Pathology and the Museum of Life Sciences (neither of which is open to the public),[76][77] as well as the Chapel of Thomas Guy.[78] The Students' Union runs Guy's Bar, Guy's Café and a contact hub on the Guy's Campus.[74][79][80] The Great Dover Street Apartments and Wolfson House halls of residence are close to the campus.[75]

The hospital and the campus are named after Thomas Guy, who established the hospital with money from his investments in the slave-trading South Sea Company.[81] A statue of Thomas Guy, installed in 1734 and owned by the Guy's and St Thomas’ Foundation, stands outside the hospital, on the grounds of the university campus. This was boarded up in 2020, following the George Floyd protests, it was de-boarded for conservation work, with temporary interpretation added, in November 2022.[82][83] Permanent interpretation was installed in November 2023.[84]

Waterloo Campus

The Franklin-Wilkins Building, Waterloo Campus

The Waterloo Campus is in Lambeth, across Waterloo Bridge from the Strand Campus and adjacent to the Southbank Centre. It has three main buildings: the James Clerk Maxwell Building, the Franklin–Wilkins Building (one of the largest university buildings in London) and the Stamford Street Apartments (student accommodation).[85]

The campus is home to the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery and parts of the faculty of life sciences and medicine (also on Guy's Campus); the faculty of social science and public policy (also on the Strand Campus); and the London Dental Education Centre, part of the Dental Institute (also on the Guy's and Denmark Hill campuses).[85] The students' union has a contact hub in the Franklin-Wilkins Building.[74]

St Thomas' Campus

South Wing, St Thomas' Hospital

The St Thomas' Campus is located at St Thomas' Hospital, named after St Thomas Becket, in Lambeth, facing the Houses of Parliament across the Thames. It carries out continuing medical and dental training as well as housing the Florence Nightingale Museum, an independent charity.[86][87]

Denmark Hill Campus

The Denmark Hill Campus is situated in Camberwell in Southwark. It is the home of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) and also houses parts of the dental institute and the faculty of medicine and life sciences.[88] The students' union has a contact hub in the IoPPN.[74]