St John's College
Tudor college of red-brick Gothic courts, a grand dining Hall and a riverside Bridge of Sighs.
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This guide to St John's College in Cambridge stays in First Court, with the college kitchens and the people they fed and infuriated. It follows a young William Wordsworth in rooms above the ovens in the seventeen eighties, Victorian students squaring up to a secretive cook, and an after-dinner meeting in Hall that ran for two hours. Best heard standing in First Court itself.
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