King’s College Chapel, Interior view
The college was founded in 1441 simultaneously with Eton College by King Henry VI and generously endowed to reflect his patronage. For many centuries only Etonians could be admitted to King’s College but from 1861 admission was opened to all schools. King’s College Chapel is the most magnificent building in Cambridge and the iconic image of the city and university. Although work was begun on the chapel by Henry VI it was to be nearly a hundred years later in the reign of Henry VIII, that the chapel could be completed. The dominant building at right angles to the chapel is the work of the architect James Gibbs and some the range of buildings parallel to the chapel including the college hall and the screen front of the college are the work of the architect William Wilkins. The alumni include the poet Rupert Brooke, the writer E M Forster, the economist John Maynard Keynes, the computer scientist and code breaker Alan Turing, the Nobel Laureate Lord Blackett and the ghost story writer and bibliographer M R James. The college is well known for its choir which sings in the Christmas Eve Carol Service in the chapel which is broadcast across the world by the BBC. The choristers attend the King’s College School located close to the college.
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Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
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