Electrical Engineering Laboratory

College Students made their feelings known, writing "That Canterbury College should ever descend to an extension in red brick, was, no doubt, unthinkable by its earliest rulers, but now such is its fate.”

The Press reviewed the new building on 23 Jan 1902, describing how “The whole is very solidly built, and in the magnetic testing room there is no iron, either inside or outside the building, the floors being fastened with copper nails, while the fittings are all brass or copper. Piers are built up from a solid foundation eight feet below the floors, to ensure absolute rigidity…” Head of Engineering Professor R.J. Scott was accommodated in appropriate surroundings in a new office on the first floor which had an oriel window. Scott later insisted the window was double glazed so he wouldn’t be disturbed by the noise of stonemasons working on site during the construction of the College Library. With the departure of Engineering in the 1960s, the building was converted into the Law Department, and by the 1980s had become home to the Southern Ballet in the Arts Centre.