Trinity College
Tudor-founded college around a vast enclosed court, guarded by a medieval gate tower that moved.
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This audio guide to Trinity College in Cambridge stands you in Great Court beneath King Edward's Tower, a fifteenth-century gatehouse from the old King's Hall, and asks why its bell seems unable to count. It follows the Master Thomas Nevile and his rebuilding around sixteen hundred, a London clockmaker's bell of sixteen ten, and a neighbourly legend the college flatly rejects. Best heard just before the hour, facing the clock tower.
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