Sidney Sussex College
Elizabethan college raised on a Franciscan friary site, with medieval cellars beneath its cloister court.
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This guide to Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge follows the money and the masonry on one patch of ground off Sidney Street. It starts with the Grey Friars and what Trinity College carried away after the Dissolution, then turns to Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex, whose will of five thousand pounds came with a catch. You'll meet her executors, her disappointed relatives and a rival college with a claim of its own. Best heard standing in Hall Court.
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