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OUR TRIP

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KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL

THE GREAT WINDOWS

The greatest windows to the east ends and of the west. With the exception of the window of the west, they are from Flemish hands and they are together from 1515 to 1531. Gaylon Hone and three partners (two English and one Flemish) macaws responsible for the east window and 16 others between 1526 and 1531. The final four were made by Francis Williamson and Symon Symondes. The one modern window is that in the west wall, which was donated by King's alumnus Francis Stacey and is by the Clayton and Bell company and dates from 1879.

King's College Chapel is the chapel at King's College in the University of Cambridge. It is considered one of the finest examples of late Perpendicular Gothic English architecture. The chapel was built in phases by a succession of kings of England from 1446 to 1515, a period which spanned the Wars of the Roses. The chapel's large stained glass windows were not completed until 1531, and its early Renaissance rood screen was erected in 1532–36. The chapel is an active house of worship, and home of the King's College Choir. The chapel is a significant tourist site and a commonly used symbol of the city of Cambridge.

CAMBRIDGE

BUILDING OF THE CHAPEL

Henry Vi planned an equal thing of university to the university (of who chapel is very similar, but not on the staircase intended by Henry) of Eton. The architect of the chapel is Reginald Ely that he was commissioned in 1444 , the Nicholas Close (or Cloos) was recorded as the "surveyor" that he has generally been approved to besynonymous of architect. The first stone of the Chapel was staid, from same Henry, on the Party of St James the apostle, July 25 th 1446 the university has been started in 1441. from the end of the kingdom of Richard III (1485), despite the Wars. Henry VII visited in 1506, paying for the job; the chapel represents the greatest fan of the world builds at times, he built among 1512 and 1515 from master mason John Wastell.The adoration of the Magios of Rubens, originally painted in 1634. Il dipinto fu installato nella Cappella nel 1968, the gradations were created in 1774 by James Essex. human rests in intact lead coffins with brass plates were open, the appointment has been given since 15 to 18 centuries, and they were exhumed.

CAMBRIDGE OF TODAY

Thanks to the narrow bond with the university, the zone in Cambridge is note as Silicon Fen for the birth of enterprises to high technology everything today around the city. Besides the university in Cambridge, in the city they have center big part of the Anglia Ruskin University and the Open University of the East Anglia

FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY

ROOD SCREEN

In 1209 some students in escape from the violences in Oxford were sheltered in Cambridge and they founded you an university. The first college, the Peterhouse, was founded in the 1284. One of the most important buildings in Cambridge, the chapel of the King's College, was initiated in 1446 at the king Henry Vi. The construction was completed during the kingdom of Henry VIII in the 1515, the publishing house was born 1534, the water potalbile in the center of the city was built in 1610, Some of these parts are still found, the hospital was built in 1719. the railway station was built 1895. Despite the presence of the university, Cambridge got only the status of city in the 1951. Cambridge doesn't have a cathedral, traditionally considered a prerequisite for a city to be considered.

This large wooden screen, which separates the nave from the altar and supports the chapel organ, was erected in 1532–36 by Henry VIII in celebration of his marriage to Anne Boleyn. The screen is an example of early Renaissance architecture: a striking contrast to the Perpendicular Gothic chapel; Sir Nikolaus Pevsner said it is "the most exquisite piece of Italian decoration surviving in England"

Cambridge is a city of the England of 124 000 people. It is in the east side of England, about 100 km north-east of London, is country seat the countship of Cambridgeshire. It is wetting from the river Cam on the which on the unroll race of the rowing. It is seat of an University between the more antique of the world and the Fitzwilliam Museum.

SHE'S HISTORY

The humans settlement were present the area of Cambridge before the Roman conquiest. The more antique patency employment, an colletion weapons from hunt is the be late AGE OF THE BRONDO to have started since 1000 B.C. there is further archaeological evidence of the age of the Iron, with a tribe belgica installed in the The century B.C. in the area of Castle Hill. The first important development of the area started with the Roman invasion of Great Britain around the 40 d.C. The hill of Castle Hill made of Cambridge a military fortress. The point where the river was crossed from the Street Devana that connected Colchester in Essex with the garrisons to Lincoln and the north of England. called Durolipons. The installation remained a regional center for about 350 years after the Roman occupation, until around a year 400. The strong commercial habits of the Viking ones made to quickly grow Cambridge.

WE VISIT MANY PLACE

• The first is Cambridge
• The second is Brighton
• The third is Windsor

We considered that we had one week to visit a lot of things.