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The Cambridge Tradition | Jesus College

Jesus College is the perfect venue for The Cambridge Tradition. Situated minutes from the medieval marketplace in the city center, it is close to shops, museums, famous monuments, and other Cambridge colleges. Within its walls, Jesus College also holds some of the most spacious grounds of any Cambridge college, including an orchard, cricket pitch, football, rugby and hockey fields, tennis courts, and beautiful gardens.

Founded in 1496, the college stands on the site of a 12th-century Benedictine nunnery and the chapel is the oldest college building in Cambridge.

The college has been home to a number of celebrated intellectuals and famous figures. Among them are Thomas Cranmer who, as Archbishop of Canterbury in the early 1500s, compiled The Book of Common Prayer; Laurence Sterne, author of the ingenious novel, Tristram Shandy; Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the great classical scholar and poet; Alistair Cooke, the celebrated BBC broadcaster; and Prince Edward Windsor, the Queen’s youngest son.

Here in Jesus College our students join in the long tradition of intellectual and creative exploration. Like Coleridge, they come to cherish “the friendly cloisters and happy groves of quiet, ever-honored Jesus College.”

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