Pembroke College (formerly Hall) Chapel, Cambridge. Designed by Christopher Wren, built 1663-1665

---

Pembroke College (formerly Hall) Chapel, Cambridge. Designed by Christopher Wren, built 1663-1665, the first completely classical church or chapel built in England since the days of Inigo Jones. Originally a simple rectangular box, without aisles (the marble columns and separate chancel are later additions); it has high elegantly carved wainscotting and pews arranged in the collegiate fashion, facing each other across the nave, rather than facing the altar. Light floods in from round-headed windows, below a sumptuously ornate plaster ceiling.

---

Size: 3641px × 5651px
Photo credit: © Angelo Hornak / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1660s, cambridge, ceiling, chapel, christopher, classical, college, hall, pembroke, pembrokechapel, pews, plaster, wainscotting, wren