King's College, Cambridge

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Template:Oxbridge College Infobox King's College, Cambridge is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

The College was founded by King Henry VI in 1441, originally intended as a college for pupils from Eton College, itself founded by Henry. Over the following centuries the college gradually broadened its intake and is now widely regarded to be amongst the most progressive of the Cambridge colleges.

Although a college in its own right, the enitrety of the land on which the College sits is owned by a neighbouring college, Corpus Christi College.

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The College Chapel

The College's Chapel, an example of late Gothic architecture, was built over a period of 100 years in three stages. Much of the stone used to build the Chapel came from Ramsey Abbey near Ramsey, Cambridgeshire. The chapel features the world's largest fan vault, stained glass windows, and the painting "The Adoration of the Magi" by Rubens.

The Chapel is actively used as a place of worship and also for some concerts and college events. The world-famous Chapel choir consists of choral scholars (male students from the college) and choristers (boys educated at the nearby King's College School). The choir sings services on most days in term-time, and also performs concerts and makes recordings and broadcasts. In particular, it has broadcast its Nine Lessons and Carols on the BBC from the chapel on Christmas Eve for many decades. Additionally, there is a mixed-voice Chapel choir of male and female students, King's Voices, which sings evensong on Mondays in term-time.

The Chapel is widely seen as the symbol of Cambridge, for example in the logo of the city council (image (http://beacon.cambridge.gov.uk/images/ccc_logo.gif)).

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King's College Chapel, seen from the Backs

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Alumni

Alumni of the College include:

Orlando Gibbons, 1583-1625, composer
Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, 1674-1738, statesman and agriculturist
Robert Walpole, 1676-1745, first British Prime Minister
Horace Walpole, 1717-1797, politician
E. M. Forster, 1879-1970, writer
John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946, economist
James K. Galbraith, economist
Rupert Brooke, 1887-1915, poet
Alan Turing, 1912-1954, mathematician and computer pioneer
Derek Prince, 1915-2003, Bible teacher
Rt Rev Lord Habgood, 1927-, Archbishop of York
David Willcocks,1919-, conductor
J. G. Ballard, 1930-, writer
Tam Dalyell, 1932-, politician
Andrew Davis, 1944-, conductor
Simon Hoggart, 1946-, journalist and broadcaster
Salman Rushdie, 1947-, writer
David Baddiel, 1964-, comedian and writer
Zadie Smith, 1975-, novelist
Robin Milner, computer pioneer
Jessica Rydill, author
Francis Richards, diplomat
Patrick Blackett, physicist and Nobel Prize winner
Philip Noel-Baker, Nobel Peace Prize winner
Patrick White, novelist and Nobel Prize winner
Sydney Brenner, geneticist and Nobel Prize winner
Ian MacDonald (dropped out), 1948-2003, Music critic

Colleges of the University of Cambridge
Christ's \| Churchill \| Clare \| Clare Hall \| Corpus Christi \| Darwin \| Downing \| Emmanuel \| Fitzwilliam \| Girton \| Gonville and Caius \| Homerton \| Hughes Hall \| Jesus \| King's \| Lucy Cavendish \| Magdalene \| New Hall \| Newnham \| Pembroke \| Peterhouse \| Queens' \| Robinson \| St Catharine's \| St Edmund's \| St John's \| Selwyn \| Sidney Sussex \| Trinity \| Trinity Hall \| Wolfson