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| Kiernan Joliat | profile | all galleries >> Travel >> London Semester 2004 >> England >> Cambridge | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
 King's College Chapel, viewed across the Backs on a misty day. |
 The Gatehouse of King's College. |
 King's College Quad, with the Chapel to the right and statue of Henry VI (founder) in the centre. |
 The back of the Gatehouse from the Quad. |
 A detail of the Chapel's exterior carvings: the Tudor rose. |
 The crowned Tudor rose above a sundial. |
 Miniature fan vaulting to match the interior. |
 Another Tudor emblem, the crowned portcullis (the Beaufort family badge). |
 Carvings in a row, all Tudor emblems. |
 A bad shot of typically ornate Tudor chimneys. |
 Looking towards the river Cam and the Backs from King's College. |
 The building that houses the Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics departments. Stephen Hawking studied here. |
 The Mathematical Bridge, linking the two halves of Queens' College over the Cam. |
 St. Catharine's College. |
 Corpus Christi College, founded by trade guilds to give the middle class an equal shot at higher ed. |
 St. John's College's Tudor gatehouse. (See the rose and portcullis?) |
 Trinity College's gates. |
 Magdalen College and punts, the famous riverboats. |
 A view of the Cam from Magdalen Bridge. |
 The other side of the Cam from Magdalen Bridge. |
 Trinity Street, in the centre of the old part of town. |
 Cambridge's round church, built by Knights Templar. |
 Christ's Pieces = Cambridge-speak for "open space near Christ College." It's still funny. |
 The American Cemetery and WWII memorial. Almost 4,000 American war dead are here, and there's a memorial to 5,000 more missing. |
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