Great St Mary's, the University Church
Medieval university church where a Reformation theologian's dust lies under a brass plate.
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This guide to Great St Mary's, the University Church in Cambridge, begins in the winter of 1557, when a bishop pronounced sentence on two men who could not answer him. It follows Martin Bucer, a Protestant theologian buried here under Edward VI, through the strange rituals of Mary I's reign, when a whole church could be declared unclean. Stand near the high altar, within earshot of the tower bells.
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