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500 years of academic excellence. Christ's College, part of the University of Cambridge, is a diverse and inclusive academic community and has been at the cutting edge of education for more than 500 years.
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Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college includes the Master, the Fellows of the College, and about 450 undergraduate and 250 graduate students. [7] The college was founded by William Byngham in 1437 as God's House .
In 1505, with a royal charter from the King, the College was re-founded as Christ's College. Lady Margaret has been honoured ever since as the Foundress. Surviving the twists and turns of the Reformation, Christ's became one of the leading Puritan colleges of Elizabethan Cambridge.
Christ’s has a fantastic location, right in the centre with shops, cafés and green spaces within minutes of the gate. The grounds are stunning, especially the Fellows’ Garden, and overall it’s just a really nice place to live. From John Milton and Charles Darwin to Abioseh Davidson Nicol: Christ’s has long nurtured outstanding scholars ...
Jan 9, 2024 · 9 January 2024. By Laurence Cawley & Sam Russell, BBC News, Cambridgeshire and PA News. Tobit Curteis Associates LLP. The artworks were found during restoration work at Christ's College....
Godshouse and Christ's College are one and the same body, the two names representing the stages of youth and man's estate respectively. The story of the development has been told at length in the preceding pages and it is summarised in the authoritative words of the letters patent of I May 1505, where Henry VII gave, as was customary in such documents, the title by which the college as a legal ...