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Trinity College Chapel

Trinity College Chapel is the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Part of a complex of Grade I listed buildings at Trinity,^[1] it dates from the mid 16th Century. It is an Anglican church in the Anglo-Catholic tradition.

History

The chapel was begun in 1554–55 by order of Queen Mary and was completed in 1567 by her half-sister, Elizabeth I. The architectural style is Tudor-Gothic, with Perpendicular tracery and pinnacles. The roof is of an earlier style than the rest of the building, and may have been re-used from the chapel of King’s Hall, the college which preceded Trinity on this site. Only the walls and roof are of Tudor date.

There are many memorials to former Fellows of Trinity within the Chapel,^[2] some statues, some brasses, including two memorials to Graduates and Fellows who died during both World Wars. There are also several graves dating from earlier periods.^[3]

The chapel has a fine organ, originally built by "Father" Smith in 1694. Many alterations were made over the years until, in 1913, an almost totally new massive organ was built. Some of the pipes were so large that they would not fit in the organ loft and instead had to stand in a corner of the ante-chapel. In 1976 the present mechanical-action instrument, based on the surviving pipework and within the original cases, was completed by the Swiss firm Metzler Söhne. There are regular recitals on Sundays during term time.^[4] The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge is composed of around thirty male and female Choral Scholars and two Organ Scholars, all of whom are undergraduates of the College. Besides singing the liturgy in the chapel, the choir has an extensive programme of performances and recordings. The current Director of Music is Stephen Layton.^[5]

The Ascension Parish Burial Ground contains the graves or interred cremations of twenty-seven Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, including three Vice-Masters.

List of Deans of Chapel

The Dean of Chapel holds responsibility for the Chapel and the Clergy at Trinity.

• 1873–1877: Handley Moule^[6]
  


•  ? - ? Frederick Arthur Simpson^[7]
  


• 1923-1943: Hugh Fraser Stewart
  


• 1943-1958: John Burnaby
  


• 1958-1969: Harry Williams
  


• 1969–1983: John Robinson
  


• 1984–1991: John Bowker
  


• 1991–2006: Arnold Browne
  


• 2006-present: Michael Banner^[8]
  

List of memorials/graves

A

Chapel interior, c. 1870

• 
  Herbert Mayow Adams (Brass)


• 
  John Frank Adams (Brass)


• 
  Edgar Douglas Adrian (Brass)


• 
  Richard Appleton (academic) (Brass)


• 
  William Joscelyn Arkell (Brass)


• 
  Francis William Aston (Brass)

B

Statue of Francis Bacon

Statue of Isaac Barrow

• 
  Humphrey Babington (Interment)


• 
  Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (Statue)


• 
  Francis Bacon (Statue)


• 
  Thomas Bainbrig (Interment)


• 
  Francis Maitland Balfour (Brass)


• 
  Isaac Barrow (Statue)


• 
  Edward Bathurst (Interment)


• 
  John Beaumont (Interment)


• 
  William John Beaumont (Beamont) (Interment)


• 
  Edward White Benson (Brass)


• 
  Richard Bentley (Interment)


• 
  Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch (Brass)


• 
  Anthony Ashley Bevan (Brass)


• 
  Alfred Maurice Binnie (Brass)


• Maurice Black (Brass)


• 
  Edward William Blore (Brass / Interment)


• 
  Anchitel Harry Fletcher Boughey (Brass)


• 
  William Lawrence Bragg (Brass)


• 
  Daniel Bratteli (Interment)


• 
  Charlie Dunbar Broad (Brass)


• 
  Benjamin Chapman Browne (Brass)


• 
  Isaac Hawkins Browne (Sculpture)


• John[?] Browning (Interment)


• 
  Francis Crawford Burkitt (Brass)


• 
  Robert Burn (Brass)


• 
  John Burnaby (Brass)


• 
  Samuel Henry Butcher (Brass)


• 
  Henry Montagu Butler (Brass)


• 
  James Ramsay Montagu Butler (Brass)


• 
  Richard Austen Butler (Brass)

C

• 
  John Walton Capstick (Brass)


• 
  Edward Hallett Carr (Brass)


• 
  Arthur Cayley (Brass)


• 
  George Chare (Sculpture / Interment)


• 
  George Sidney Roberts Kitson Clark (Brass)


• 
  John Willis Clark (Brass)


• 
  Gerard Francis Cobb (Brass)


• 
  Patrick Cock (Interment)


• 
  Nathanael Cole (Interment)


• 
  John Cooper (Interment)


• 
  William Corker (Interment)


• 
  Francis MacDonald Cornford (Brass)


• 
  Roger Robert Cotes (Sculpture)


• 
  Peter Courthope (Interment)


• 
  William Cunningham (Brass)

D

• 
  Henry Hallett Dale (Brass)


• 
  William Cecil Dampier Dampier (Brass)


• 
  George Howard Darwin (Brass)


• 
  Harold Davenport (Brass)


• 
  John Davies (Sculpture)


• 
  Basil Denis Dennis-Jones (Sculpture)


• 
  Maurice Herbert Dobb (Brass)


• 
  Peter Paul Dobree (Sculpture)


• 
  William Drury (Interment)


• 
  James Duff Duff (Brass)


• 
  Patrick William Duff (Brass)


• 
  Frederick James Dykes (Brass)

E

• 
  Arthur Stanley Eddington (Brass)


• 
  Henry Outram Evennett (Brass)

F

• 
  Frederick Field (Brass)


• 
  Walter Morley Fletcher (Brass)


• 
  Michael Foster (Brass)


• 
  Ralph Howard Fowler (Brass)


• 
  James George Frazer (Brass)


• 
  Otto Robert Frisch (Brass)

G

• 
  John Andrew Gallagher (Brass)


• 
  James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (Brass)


• 
  George Peabody Gooch (Brass)


• 
  Harry Chester Goodhart (Brass)


• 
  William Gostwycke (Interment)


• 
  Andrew Sydenham Farrar Gow (Brass)


• 
  Alan Gray (Brass)

H

• 
  Andrew Hacket (Interment)


• 
  James Lemprière Hammond (Brass)


• 
  Charles John Hamson (Brass)


• 
  Godfrey Harold Hardy (Brass)


• 
  Ernest Harrison (Brass)


• 
  Samuel Hawkes (Sculpture)


• [[William[?] Herbert]] (Interment)


• 
  David Arthur Gilbert Hinks (Brass)


• 
  Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (Brass)


• 
  Henry Arthur Hollond (Brass)


• 
  Francis Hooper (Sculpture)


• 
  Frederick Gowland Hopkins (Brass)


• 
  Fenton John Anthony Hort (Brass)


• 
  Alfred Edward Housman (Brass)


• 
  Thomas Percy Hudson (Brass)

I

• 
  Hugo McLeod Innes (Brass)


• 
  Henry Jackson (Brass)

J

• 
  Richard Claverhouse Jebb (Brass)


• 
  Francis John Henry Jenkinson (Brass)


• 
  Thomas Jones (Sculpture)

K

• 
  Piotr Leonidovich Kapitza (Brass)


• 
  Alan Ker (Brass)


• 
  Charles William King (Brass)


• 
  Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick (Brass)


• 
  George Sidney Roberts Kitson Clark (Brass)


• 
  Arthur Harold John Knight (Brass)

L

Daniel Lock

• 
  James Lambert (Sculpture)


• 
  John Newport Langley (Brass)


• 
  Gaillard Thomas Lapsley (Brass)


• 
  Reginald Vere Laurence (Brass)


• 
  Ralph Alexander Leigh (Brass)


• 
  Gerald Ponsonby Lenox-Conyngham (Brass)


• 
  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Brass)


• 
  Denis (Dionysius) L'Isle (Interment)


• 
  John Edensor Littlewood (Brass)


• 
  Daniel Lock (Sculpture)


• 
  Henry Richards Luard (Brass)


• 
  William Lynnet (Interment)

M

Thomas Babington Macaulay

• 
  Thomas Babington Macaulay (Statue)


• 
  Charles Fox Maitland (Sculpture)


• 
  Frederick William Maitland (Brass)


• 
  Frederick Malkin (Sculpture)


• 
  Frederick George Mann (Brass)


• 
  William Lort Mansel (Interment)


• Francis Martin (Brass)


• 
  John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart (Brass)


• 
  Moore Meredith (Interment)


• 
  Hubert Stanley Middleton (Brass)


• 
  George Edward Moore (Brass)


• 
  Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro (Brass)


• 
  Hugh Frank Newall (Brass)

N

Statue of Isaac Newton

• 
  Isaac Newton (Statue)


• 
  Tressilian Charles Nicholas (Brass)


• 
  Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (Brass)


• 
  John North (Interment)

O

• 
  Charles William Oatley (Brass)

P

• 
  Carl Frederick Abel Pantin (Brass)


• 
  Reginald St John Parry (Brass)


• 
  Alfred Chilton Pearson (Brass)


• 
  Richard Porson (Sculpture / Interment)


• 
  John Percival Postgate (Brass)


• 
  Joseph Prior (Brass)


• 
  Mark Gillachrist Marlborough Pryor (Brass)

R

• 
  Srinavasa Ramanujan (Brass)


• 
  Robert Mantle Rattenbury (Brass)


• 
  Dennis Holme Robertson (Brass)


• 
  Donald Struan Robertson (Brass)


• 
  John Arthur Thomas Robinson (Brass)


• 
  Robert Robson (Brass)


• 
  Thomas Rotherham (Interment)


• 
  Francis John Worsley Roughton (Brass)


• 
  Walter William Rouse Ball (Brass)


• 
  William Albert Hugh Rushton (Brass)


• 
  Bertrand Russell (Brass)


• 
  Ernest Rutherford (Brass)


• 
  Martin Ryle (Brass)

S

• Thomas Slater (Interment)


• 
  Francis Henry Sandbach (Brass)


• 
  Thomas Secford (Interment)


• 
  Adam Sedgwick (Brass / Interment)


• 
  Thomas Kynaston Selwyn (Sculpture)


• 
  Richard Sheepshanks (Sculpture)


• 
  Henry Sidgwick (Brass)


• 
  Frederick Arthur Simpson (Brass)


• 
  Elizmar Smith (Brass)


• 
  Robert Smith (Interment)


• 
  Thomas Smith (Interment)


• 
  James Spedding (Sculpture)


• 
  Piero Sraffa (Brass)


• 
  Charles Villiers Stanford (Brass)


• 
  Vincent Henry Stanton (Brass)


• 
  Richard Stevenson (Sculpture)


• 
  Hugo Fraser Stewart (Brass)


• 
  James Stuart (Brass)

T

Statue of Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• 
  Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (Brass)


• 
  Henry Martyn Taylor (Brass)


• 
  Sedley Taylor (Brass)


• 
  Frederick Robert Tennant (Brass)


• 
  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Statue)


• 
  Arthur Thacker (Interment)


• 
  William Hepworth Thompson (Brass / Interment)


• 
  Joseph John Thomson (Brass)


• 
  Thomas Thorp (Brass)


• 
  George Macaulay Trevelyan (Brass)


• 
  Coutts Trotter (Brass)

U

• 
  Walter Ullmann (Brass)

V

• 
  Ralph Vaughan Williams (Brass)


• 
  Arthur Woollgar Verrall (Brass)


• 
  John Michal Kenneth Vyvyan (Brass)

W

William Whewell

• 
  Thomas Attwood Walmisley (Brass)


• 
  Edward Walpole (Interment)


• 
  James Ward (Brass)


• 
  Brooke Foss Westcott (Brass)


• 
  William Whewell (Statue / Interment)


• 
  Stephen Whisson (Interment)


• 
  Alfred North Whitehead (Brass)


• 
  John Willis Clark (Brass)


• 
  John Wilson (Interment)


• 
  Denys Arthur Winstanley (Brass)


• 
  Carl Winter (Brass)


• 
  Arthur John Terence Dibben Wisdom (Brass)


• 
  Ludwig Wittgenstein (Brass)


• 
  John Wordsworth (Sculpture / Interment)


• 
  William Aldis Wright (Brass)

References

External links

• Trinity College Chapel