O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

Here's Part II of the Cambridge trip: Emmanuel College. It was founded as a training college for Protestant preachers in 1584, and was all-male until 1979. It is comprised of several attached courtyards. Below is a photo of the front courtyard. Only professors, or "fellows" as they are called at Cambridge, are allowed to walk on the lawn. Everyone else has to walk around the outer walkways.

Here is one of the adjoining courtyards. The building on the left is dorm rooms, and the one on the right, that you can just see the corner of, is the library. Excepting the front courtyard, the courtyards at Emmanuel are all filled with hedge mazes and such, all organized and trimmed in traditional Tudor fashion, complete with herb gardens between the rows.

The dining hall. And to think I put up with Prentiss for two years. Not fair.

The hall is actually much longer than the picture shows, but I was forced to crop a lot of it in an effort to make my very cock-eyed photo somewhat straighter. The profs sit at the top table and get waited on.


The college chapel. The pews are built facing inward rather than forward to signify that this is an academic setting, not just a religious one.


Close-up of one of the stained glass windows in the chapel. Each of the windows depicts two people of great import who either attended or taught at Emmanuel College. Here we have Lawrence Chaderton, right, who was the first headmaster of Emmanuel. The current headmaster is Lord Wilson, Baron of Dinton. To the left is John Harvard (as in Harvard University, the U.S.'s oldest university), who was a student here. In the top right-hand corner of his picture is a ship, to signify his crossing the Atlantic to the New World and setting up Harvard University.


This is John Harvard's dorm building. As in the one he lived in, not one that's named after him. Yeah.


Part of the grounds in back of the college. The pond used to be stocked with fish, and the priests- and monks-in-training would catch fish as part of their dinners.

On the far left-hand side of the photo is the requisite Ugly Modern Sculpture that it seems no beautiful college can be without. And I thought it was just Whitman that had a hideous artwork problem.


All in all, though, a lovely Cambridge college--and one of many!