Effingham street part of the Earl of Effingham's plans to develop the area to the north east of Rotherham's historic core. Unable to clarify from available data the extent that original buildings survive although from the aerial photograph it appears that most buildings are of the 20th century with flat roofs. Area shown on 1853 1/1056 map in pre-development form as "College Gardens". These gardens seem to have been an original feature of the mediaeval college as the Certificates of Colleges compiled at the time of the dissolution of the chantries (1547) records " a garden and orchard within the cloister of the same, environed with a brick wall, contains by estimation two acres" (quoted in Guest 1880). Guest goes on to record the appearance of the surviving gardens in the earlier 19th century - "surrounded by strong and large brick walls, …..and the figure of the Cross appearing at regular distances, built in different coloured brick." (ibid, 392)