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History of Jesus College

13th century arches in Jesus College chapel (MoC521/55)

Entrance gateway Jesus College

Jesus College, 1690, by Loggan for Cantabrigia Illustrrata

Jesus College, after David Loggan

Jesus College after Loggan

General information about Jesus College can be found on Wikipedia.

Jesus College

1871

Arthur W Westmoreland, president and fellow, 51, b Middlesex

[See Mill Road Cemetery entry]

Edmund Adson, 56, college porter, b Northants

Hannah Fox, 28, housemaid, b Cambridge

Emily Fox, 12, housemaid, b Cambridge

Jesus College chapel exterior

Rattee and Kett were responsible for the construction of the new screen and choir stalls in the mid 19th century following the designs of Augustus Pugin. He had worked on the Houses of Parliament and was familiar with the work of Rattee and Kett.

Jesus College circa 1904

The Cambridge Ghost Book, Halliday and Murdie, 2000, has a chapter on Jesus College in which they describe the work of Arthur Gray, Master of Jesus College 1912 – 1940. Gray wrote a series of ghost stories with Cambridge settings, many around Jesus College. One of the most famous was the tale of the Everlasting Club, written to explain the existence of an empty study on G Staircase at the college, traditionally known as ‘Cow Lane.’ This story of The Everlasting Club may have been inspired by an actual Cambridge society, the Ghost Club, founded at Trinity College in 1851. See also ‘Cambridge Ghosts’ by Geoff Yeats.

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