Jesus College, Cambridge – Chapel interior
Jesus College was founded in 1496 on the site of a Benedictine nunnery by John Alcock, Bishop of Ely, as the College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund but adopted the name Jesus College derived from the name of its chapel, Jesus Chapel. It retains to this day most of the buildings of the nunnery but many additions are also evident on the site some of which were carried out by Alcock at the time of foundation. Its alumni include Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury and author of the Book of Common Prayer, the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal, the broadcaster Alistair Cooke, and Arthur Quiller-Couch ‘Q’ the writer. Jesus Chapel was the original chapel of the nunnery. It was modified when the College was founded; the aisles were removed and the nave much reduced in size (and its West end converted into the Master’s Lodge) and large windows in the Perpendicular Style and a low pitched roof were added. Subsequent to this view, later in the nineteenth century the Chapel was greatly altered, first by Augustus Pugin, and later by George Bodley. Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris also worked on the chapel in the 19th century. The picture was drawn and engraved by J and H S Storer.
Size: 4250px × 5516px
Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Photo credit: © Cameni Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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