Clare College
Fourteenth-century college with a classical stone court and a seventeenth-century bridge over the river.
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This guide to Clare College in Cambridge stands you inside Old Court in the early sixteen-forties, when the English Civil War reached a half-built courtyard. It follows a Royalist-leaning college, the fellow running its rebuilding, and the Parliamentary soldiers fortifying Cambridge Castle across the river. You will meet the Earl of Manchester's purge of the fellows and an iconoclast's visit to the chapel. Best heard in the middle of Old Court, facing the range on the river side.
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