King's College Chapel
Late Gothic royal chapel with the world's largest fan vault and Tudor-era Flemish stained glass.
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This guide to King's College Chapel in Cambridge follows the people who were paid to build it in the early fifteen hundreds, as recorded fortnight by fortnight in the college accounts. At its centre is Margaret Collens, a rope and twine dealer whose name in those ledgers changes over the years. You'll also meet the Suffolk craftsmen, the axe and nail suppliers, and the masons who worked on the scaffolding overhead. Best heard standing in the middle of the floor, looking up.
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