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Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
East of England

Trinity Street
(Gonville and Caius College)

Founders of Gonville and Caius College

1868-70

Description

Three stone statues in the tower of Waterhouse Building facing King's Parade, built by Alfred Waterhouse. They show the three founders of the Gonville & Caius college. Gonville holds a model of the Gate of Honour:

above the entrance:
Edmund Gonville (died 1351), founder of Gonville Hall in 1348, which later was re-founded by John Caius to become Gonville and Caius College (Wikipedia).
left of the bay window:
Johannes Caius (John Keys) (Norwich 1510 - London 1573), physician, and second founder of the present Gonville and Caius College (Wikipedia).
right of the bay window:
William Bateman (died 1355), Bishop of Norwich, who consolidated Gonville's foundation, providing endowments and statutes and establishing the College on its current site in Trinity Street (Wikipedia).

Annotation

On the façade facing Trinity Street are a large number of heads of British scholars.

Sources & Information

Kevin Taylor, Central Cambridge: a guide to the university and colleges, p. 22.
Cambridge Chronicle and Journal - Saturday 17 September 1870 (British Newspaper Archive).

Location (N 52°12'20" - E 0°7'4")

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Item Code: gbee003; Photograph: 25 October 2009
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