Pembroke College
Fourteenth-century college with the first classical chapel designed by a young Christopher Wren.
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This guide to Pembroke College in Cambridge stands you in its seventeenth-century chapel and follows the money behind it. It belongs to Matthew Wren, Bishop of Ely and ally of Archbishop Laud, who spent the Civil War years locked in the Tower of London, and to the promise he made there. Along the way you meet a young nephew with no buildings to his name. Best heard inside the chapel, looking up at the plaster ceiling.
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