Element of one particular of 4 windows in the east and west walls of the south transept by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co, installed in 1867-78. Every depicts 1 of the Four Evangelists at the centre flanked by the pagan sibyls, and ended up primarily intended by Edward Burne Jones (who provided the cartoons for… Continue reading Cumaean Sibyl
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Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge
Jesus Higher education might not be the oldest of Cambridge’s colleges, but no matter it can nevertheless boast the oldest chapel. The existing cruciform building was formerly the monastic church of St Mary & St Radegund, a convent of nuns founded in 1157. This was dissolved in 1496 when the existing school was established on… Continue reading Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge
Rustat Memorial, Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge
Memorial to university benefactor Tobias Rustat (d.1693) by Grinling Gibbons. The monument presently occupies the in any other case blank west wall of the nave, but the school has programs to get rid of this memorial (but ideally not damage it) owing to Rustat’s connections with slavery. Jesus University may perhaps not be the oldest… Continue reading Rustat Memorial, Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge