King's College, Cambridge
Fifteenth-century royal college with a soaring fan-vaulted Gothic chapel and riverside lawns.
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This guide to King's College in Cambridge follows Henry the Sixth, the teenage king who began it in the fourteen-forties and dreamed of a chapel without equal. It moves through his demand for plain, unfussy stone, the Wars of the Roses that tore his reign apart, and the masons left standing in the chapel yard. Best heard outside the chapel's long south wall, then carried inside to the west window.
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