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- Eager to bounce back from a ninth-place finish in the College League last year, our players were determined to affirm St Catharine’s position as the best chess college. Despite being a smaller squad, St Catharine’s emerged victorious and is the first college to win the College League title twice.
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St Catharine's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. [2] Founded in 1473 as Katharine Hall, it adopted its current name in 1860. The college is nicknamed " Catz ". The college is located in the historic city-centre of Cambridge, and lies just south of King's College and across the street from Corpus Christi College.
St Catharine's College was founded in 1473 by Robert Woodlark. He had spent nearly twenty years buying up tenements in what is now Queens’ Lane until he had a site large enough to accommodate the little hall which he called ‘Saynt Kateryns Hall of Cambridge’.
During our 550th anniversary celebrations, it seems appropriate to reflect upon the College’s historical inheritance and how university life has changed since 1473. Dr Christa Lundberg (2022), Dame Jean Thomas Junior Research Fellow at St Catharine’s, specialises in the history of early modern universities, books and knowledge.
- Foundation and Early history.
- The Reformation.
- The Great Rebuilding.
- The Great decline.
- Later history.
- Statutes.
- Buildings.
- Chapel.
- Library.
- Advowsons.
St.Catharine's College (fn. 1)was founded by Robert Woodlark (or Wodelarke), Provost of King's College, onSt. Catharine's day, 25 November 1473. Until 1860 it wasknown as Catharine Hall. Thesite was the north-west of thepresent court, and the front facedMilne Street, now Queens' Lane.The whole of the island siteformed by Queens' Lane, SilverStreet,...
With the Reformationmonastic ideals became unpopular, and financialdifficulties led the College to increase its income bybecoming a teaching body. An interesting document,the original of which must have been drawn upabout 1550, outlines the studies and discipline ofjunior students for four years of residence, theofficer in charge being called prael...
Hills died in 1626,and for 60 years the College enjoyed a spell of greatprosperity, broken only by the ejection of the wholesociety in 1650 for refusing to take the 'Engagement'to support the House of Commons without King andHouse of Lords. A succession of able Masters,Sibbes, Brownrigg, Spurstow, Lightfoot, Eachard,Dawes, and a really remarkable b...
The 18th century wasfor St. Catharine's a period of steady decline both inprestige and in numbers. The number of freshmen,which had been usually between 20 and 30 duringthe 17th century, only once, in 1772, was above 9from 1733 to 1807, and this exception is due to themagnificent benefaction of Mrs. Ramsden, who byher will, dated 3 November 1743, f...
Then occurred a revival of theCollege under the guidance of Procter and Philpott(1799–1861), when annual entries rose from none in1800, 1801, and 1802, to 33 in 1828, with an averageof about 20 from 1800 to 1850. In 1861, however, there took place the greatestdisaster in the history of the College, from whichit did not recover until after the First...
The founder's statutes were replacedby the Edwardian statutes of 1549. Woodlark decreed that his fellows were to be clergy, and toconfine their studies to divinity. They lost their fellowships if they entered a religious order, or if they cameinto possession of property yielding 10 marks a year.Rules were given for the regulation of the fellows'stu...
The washing and repair of the maincourt carried out in 1951–2 enabled visitors to forman estimate of the skill, one might say genius, ofthe 17th-century builders. What may be calledthe pattern of all subsequent developments was thestaircase in Walnut-tree Court, erected about 1630.Its characteristic 'notes' are red brick with stonework, three stori...
The chapel walls and roof were completedby 1676, but want of funds prevented the furnishingof the interior until 1704. It is a good example ofQueen Anne architecture, designed by Robert Grumbold, though the Controller of the King's Works,William Talman, was consulted. The only speciallyremarkable features, however, are the fine oakpanelling by John...
Down to 1945 there was little in thelibrary, which extends over the hall, except a fewearly printed books (fn. 2) and the standard works whichwere likely to interest the clerics who formed themajority of the fellows before 1860. But after theSecond World War the librarian removed the uselesslumber, using the space thus left to house the oldjunior l...
The rectory of Coton was a gift tothe College from the founder. Ridgewell vicarage(Essex) was bought in 1542 and augmented in 1816.The rectories of Gimingham and Trunch (Norf.)were given to the College by John Duke, of Kelsale(Suff.) in 1592. The only other living in the possession of the College is that of Little Shelford, whichwas bought in 1879 ...
Oct 23, 2024 · St Catharine's is committed to academic excellence and success, while maintaining a relaxed and sociable atmosphere. We are fortunate to be located in the centre of Cambridge - within short walking distance of most University departments and numerous historic buildings and collections.
Sep 7, 2024 · The book charts the history of the college from the foundation to the 1930s, and is divided into chapters on topics including domestic history, key figures, and a section on documents, including statutes, income, authorities and correspondence.
S t catharine's college was founded in 1473 by Robert Woodlark, Provost of King's, whose life and work are given in Chapter II. The site chosen by Woodlark for the new foundation was quite close to King's College.
