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King's College, Chapel

A Grade I Listed Building in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

  • King's College Chapel

  • View from west end towards screen

  • Part of the great fan vault - 1512 - 1515

  • Organ case (1686 - 1688) and fan vault

  • The Adoration of the Magi by Rubens beneath the East Window.

  • Brass lectern (1515) and oak screen. The screen was a gift from Henry VIII.

  • Brass lectern (1515), a gift from Robert Hacumblen, Provost 1509 to 1528.

  • Founded 1441 by Henry VI; first stone laid 1446, completed 1515

  • East end exterior; details of buttresses & pinnacles

  • West doorway with three orders of thin colonnettes

  • South porch with ogee gables, large roundels with arms & supporters

  • Interior from antechapel showing screen & fan vaulting

  • Side chapel bay in the Antechapel showing portcullis (Beaufort), Tudor Rose, fleur-de-lis, Welsh Dragon (Tudor) & greyhound (Lady Margaret Beaufort)

  • Portrayal of Henry VI on lectern with engraved ornament by Robert Hacombleyn, c.1515

  • Hacombleyn Chapel: c15 glass representing the founder, Henry VI

  • Robert Hacombleyn 1528; cassock, surplice & almuce

  • Shield from the brass of Robert Hacombleyn, 1528, showing Five Wounds of Christ

  • Kings College Chapel

  • Kings College Chapel

  • Kings College Chapel

  • Kings College Chapel

  • Kings College Chapel

  • King's Chapel, E end

  • King's College, Cambridge, February 2015

  • King's College, Cambridge, February 2015

  • King's College, Chapel, Cambridge

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Entry Name: King's College, Chapel

Listing Date: 26 April 1950

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1139003

English Heritage Legacy ID: 47164

ID on this website: 101139003

Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2

County: Cambridgeshire

District: Cambridge

Electoral Ward/Division: Castle

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Cambridge

Traditional County: Cambridgeshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire

Church of England Parish: Cambridge St Edward King and Martyr

Church of England Diocese: Ely

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