England Guide
East Anglia
Emmanuel College
Opening time: No set opening times
Price: Free
Address: St Andrew's Street
Telephone: 01223/334 200
Website: www.emma.cam.ac.uk
Emmanuel College dates from 1584. Its stolid Neoclassical facade hides a neat and trim Front Court, where the chapel was designed by Wren in a simple Classical style, its wood-panelled nave set beneath a fancy stucco ceiling. Emmanuel trained a new generation of Protestant clergy on the heels of the Reformation, and its recruits numbered among the Pilgrims who settled New England, which not only explains the derivation of the place-name Cambridge in Massachusetts but also accounts for Harvard University – John Harvard, another alumnus, is remembered by a memorial window in the chapel.