Jesus College | |
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University of Cambridge | |
Scarf colours: three equal stripes of red and black, with red in the middle on one side of the scarf, and black in the middle on the other | |
Location | Jesus Lane (map) |
Coordinates | 52°12′33″N00°07′24″E / 52.20917°N 0.12333°E |
Full name | The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund, within the City and University of Cambridge [1] |
Abbreviation | JE [2] |
Motto | Prosperum iter facias [3] (Latin) |
Motto in English | "May your journey be successful" |
Founder | John Alcock |
Established | 1496 |
Named after | Jesus |
Sister college | Jesus College, Oxford |
Master | Sonita Alleyne |
Undergraduates | 538 (2022-23) |
Postgraduates | 395 (2022-23) |
Endowment | £203.6m |
Website | www |
Student Union | jcsu |
MCR | mcr |
Boat club | www |
Map | |
Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. [4] The college's full name is The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund, near Cambridge. Its common name comes from the name of its chapel, Jesus Chapel.
Jesus College was established in 1496 [5] on the site of the twelfth-century Benedictine nunnery of St Mary and St Radegund by John Alcock, then Bishop of Ely. [5] The cockerel is the symbol of Jesus College, after the surname of its founder. For the 300 years from 1560 to 1860, Jesus College was primarily a training college for Church of England clergy. [6]
Jesus College has assets of approximately £344m making it Cambridge's fourth-wealthiest college. The college is known for its particularly expansive grounds which include its sporting fields and for its proximity to its boathouse. Three members of Jesus College have received a Nobel Prize. [7] Two fellows of the college have been appointed to the International Court of Justice. [8]
Sonita Alleyne was elected master of Jesus College in 2019, 40 years after the college began admitting women as students. [9] She is also the first black leader of an Oxbridge college. [10]
When founded in 1496, the college consisted of buildings taken over from the Nunnery of St Mary and St Radegund, which was founded at the beginning of the 12th century; the chapel is the oldest university building in Cambridge still in use and predates the foundation of the college by 350 years, the university by half a century.
The Benedictine Convent, upon dissolution, included the chapel and the cloister attached to it; the nuns' refectory, which became the college hall; and the former lodging of the prioress, which became the Master's Lodge. This set of buildings remains the core of the college to this day and this accounts for its distinctly monastic architectural style, which sets it apart from other Cambridge colleges. A library was soon added, and the chapel was considerably modified and reduced in scale by Alcock. At its foundation, the college had a master, six fellows and six scholars. [11]
Jesus College admits undergraduate and graduate students to all subjects at the university though typically accepts a larger number of students for engineering, medicine, law, natural sciences, mathematics, economics, history, languages, and human, social and political sciences. [12] The college offers a wide range of scholarships. [13]
The college consistently performs well in the informal Tompkins Table, which ranks Cambridge colleges by undergraduate results. Along with students from Trinity, King's, Christ's and St John's, students of the college have been members of the Cambridge Apostles.
The main entrance to Jesus College is a walled passage known as the "Chimney". The term is derived from the Middle French word cheminée, for "little path" or "little way". The Chimney leads directly to the Porter's Lodge and then into First Court. All the courts at the college, except for the cloister, are open on at least one side.
The Quincentenary Library is the main library of Jesus College and is open 24 hours a day. The library was designed by Eldred Evans and David Shalev in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the foundation of the college in 1996. Completion of the library was shortly followed by a new accommodation building in 2000, now known as Library Court. [14] The Quincentenary Library has a particularly large law collection, housed in a law library on the ground floor.
The Old Library was in regular use until 1912. It still contains over 9,000 books and is available to private researchers upon appointment. [15] The Old Library includes the Malthus Collection, being the family collection of alumnus Thomas Malthus, famous for his study An Essay on the Principle of Population which influenced Charles Darwin.
Jesus College has large sporting grounds on-site. These include football, rugby, cricket, tennis, squash, basketball and hockey pitches. The Jesus College Boat House is 400 yards away, across Midsummer Common. [16]
The college frequently hosts exhibitions of sculpture by contemporary artists. It has hosted work by Sir Antony Gormley, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, and Barry Flanagan. [17] The college grounds also include a nature trail, inspired by poetry composed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge during his time as a student. [18]
Jesus College is one of the few colleges to allow anyone to walk on the lawns of its courts, except First Court, Cloister Court and those that are burial sites for nuns from the original nunnery.
The College Chapel was founded in 1157 and took until 1245 to complete, and is believed to be the oldest university building in Cambridge still in use. Originally it was the chapel of the Benedictine Convent of St. Mary and St. Radegund, which was dissolved by Bishop John Alcock.
The original structure of the chapel was cruciform in shape and the nave had both north and south aisles. A high, pitched roof was surmounted by a belfry and steeple; this collapsed in 1277. The chapel was also used as the parish church of St Radegund. Twice the chapel was ravaged by fire, in 1313 and 1376.
When the college took over the precincts during the 15th century, the parish was renamed after the college as Jesus parish, with the churchyard still being used for burials. This, however, was short-lived, as by the middle of the 16th century Jesus' parish was absorbed into that of All Saints. Significant alterations were carried out to the church under Alcock, transforming the cathedral-sized church, which was the largest in Cambridge into a College chapel for a small group of scholars. A large part of the original nave was replaced by College rooms, and subsequently part of the Master's Lodge.
The misericords were created by the architect Augustus Pugin between 1849 and 1853. Pugin used fragments of the misericords dating from 1500, which had been preserved in the Master's Lodge as templates. Repairs were also undertaken by George Frederick Bodley between 1864 and 1867, who commissioned decorative schemes from Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. [19] The same firm returned in the 1870s to install stained glass. [20]
Said and sung services are held every day during term. Choral Evensong takes place four times a week (Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays), and sung Eucharist on Sunday mornings. There are also Compline twice a term, as well as Masses on major holy days. [21] The chapel, famed for its warm but clean acoustics, is also a much sought-after space for concerts and recitals, as well as recordings.
Jesus College maintains two highly regarded choirs, the College Choir and the Chapel Choir. [22]
Between September 2009 and December 2016 Mark Williams, former assistant organist at St Paul's Cathedral, served as director of music, [24] being succeeded by Richard Pinel, former assistant organist at St George's Chapel, Windsor and Organ Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford, in January 2017. [25] After Pinel's departure at the end of the 2022 academic year, Peter Wright served as acting director until the appointment of the current director Benjamin Sheen, who took up the post in January 2023. Former Organ Scholars include Malcolm Archer, who (until 2018) was the Organist and Director of Chapel Music, at Winchester College, James O'Donnell, Organist and Master of the Choristers of Westminster Abbey, and Charles Harrison, Organist and Master of the Choristers of Chichester Cathedral. [26] ,
The following Latin grace is recited before formal dinners at Jesus College (Oratio Ante Cibum; English: "Prayer before Food"):
Oculi omnium in te aspiciunt et in te sperant, Deus. Tu das illis escam tempore opportuno. Aperis tu manus, et imples omne animal benedictione tua. Benedic nobis, Domine, et omnibus tuis donis, quae ex larga liberalitate tua sumpturi sumus, per Jesum Christum Dominum nostrum. Deus est caritas. Qui manet in caritate manet in Deo et Deus in illo. Sit Deus in nobis, et nos maneamus in illo.
English translation:
The eyes of all look towards you and trust in you, O God. You give them food in due season. You open your hands and fill every living thing with your blessing. Bless us, O Lord, and all your gifts, which through your great generosity we are about to receive, through Jesus Christ our Lord. God is love. He who abides in love abides in God and God in him. May God be in us and may we abide in him.
The following Oratio Post Cibum (English: "Prayer after Food") is sometimes read after dinner:
Deus pacis et dilectionis semper maneat nobiscum; tu autem, Domine, miserere nostrum. Agimus tibi gratias pro omnibus tuis beneficiis, qui vivis et regnas, Deus, per omnia saecula saeculorum. Deus conservet Ecclesiam, Regem, regnum, senatum, et pacem.
English translation:
May the God of peace and love always abide with us; have mercy upon us, O Lord. We thank you for all your mercies, who live and reign, God, for ever and ever. May God preserve the Church, the King, the realm, Parliament and peace.
However, after a normal formal dinner in Hall the following short responsory is usually used:
Although Jesus College is one of the older colleges at the university, it is known for having a relaxed and informal atmosphere. This is in large part attributable to its active student unions, the Jesus College Student Union (JCSU) and the Jesus College Graduate Union (MCR). These unions organise a wide range of social, cultural, welfare and sporting events throughout the year. The John Hughes Arts Festival, founded by College students in 2014 in memory of the late Dean of Chapel, John Hughes, enters its third year in 2017, providing a broad programme of arts events. [27]
Jesus College hosts an annual May Ball. Musician James Bay played at the 2015 May Ball. [28] The headliners for 2016 were Coasts, Clean Bandit and Jack Garratt. [29] [30]
Jesus College offers a large number of sports, including rowing, football, rugby, hockey, tennis, squash and basketball. The college typically fields several teams in each sport. The Jesus College Boat Club is particularly strong, with the 1st Men's VIII never having dropped below 12th place in the May Bumps and 11th position in the Lent Bumps. The JCBC organises the annual Fairbairn Cup Races.
A three-course dinner known as Formal Hall is served in the college's main dining hall five nights a week. Gowns are worn by all members of the college, along with lounge suits for men and formal dresses for women. A four-course dinner for graduate students of the college known as Grad Hall is served in Upper Hall each Wednesday. Unlike most traditional Oxbridge colleges, the college allows graduate students to dine at High Table on Tuesdays.
The college also offers informal dining at lunch and dinner known as Caff, as well as brunch on Saturday mornings and a brunch on Sundays. The college also has a popular student bar known as JBar which sells a wide variety of drinks, including JPA (Jesus Pale Ale). [31]
Sonita Alleyne was elected master of the college in 2019. She was preceded by Ian White, former Van Eck Professor of Engineering at the university. Previous masters of the college include:
Three members of the college have received Nobel Prizes. Philip W. Anderson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics (1977). [32] Anderson was a fellow from 1969 to 1975 while he held a visiting professorship at the Cavendish Laboratory and has been an Honorary Fellow since 1978. Peter D. Mitchell, an undergraduate and later research student, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1978). He became an Honorary Fellow in 1979. [33] Eric Maskin was a joint winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2007. Maskin was a research fellow from 1976 to 1977 and has been an Honorary Fellow since 2009.
Several prominent figures in the law have been fellows of the college. Professor Glanville Williams, described as Britain's foremost scholar of criminal law, [34] was a Fellow from 1957 to 1978. The Glanville Williams Society, consisting of current and former members of Jesus College, meets annually in his honour. [35] Justice David Hayton, editor of Underhill and Hayton's Law of Trusts and Trustees and current judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice was a Fellow from 1973 to 1987. [36] Professor Robert Jennings was a Fellow of the college and later Whewhell Professor of International Law (1955–1982) before his appointment to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), where he served as a Judge (1982–1991) and later as President (1991–1995). Professor James Crawford was also a Fellow of the college and later Whewhell Professor of International Law (1992–2014) before his appointment to the International Court of Justice in November 2014. Current Honorary Fellows include Lord Roger Toulson of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Sir Rupert Jackson of the Court of Appeal, and Sir Colman Treacy, also of the Court of Appeal, all of whom were students of the college. [37]
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Name | Born | Died | Details |
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Double dates may indicate Old Style and New Style dates. | |||
Thomas Cranmer | 1489 | 1556 | Archbishop of Canterbury |
John Bale | 1495 | 1563 | Bishop of Ossory |
Thomas Goodrich | 1494 | 1554 | Bishop of Ely |
Arthur Golding | 1535/6 | 1606 | Protestant propagandist |
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke | 1554 | 1628 | Elizabethan poet, playwright, statesman and biographer of Sir Philip Sidney |
Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington | 1570/1 | 1631 | Antiquarian, MP and founder of the Cotton Library. |
Thomas Beard | 1632 | English cleric, theologian, Puritan and schoolmaster of Oliver Cromwell. | |
Francis Higginson | 1588 | 1630 | Early Puritan minister in Colonial New England, and first minister of Salem, Massachusetts. |
Richard Sterne | 1596 | 1683 | Archbishop of York, Master of Jesus College (1634) |
John Eliot | 1604 | 1690 | Puritan missionary who translated the Bible into Algonquian. |
Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet | 1608 | 1666 | English diplomat, translator and poet. |
John Strype | 1643 | 1737 | English cleric, historian and biographer |
William Beale | 1784 | 1854 | Master of Jesus College (1632)[ Dates appear not to agree. ] |
John Flamsteed | 1646 | 1719 | First Astronomer Royal |
Thomas Herring | 1693 | 1757 | Archbishop of Canterbury |
Matthew Hutton | 1693 | 1758 | Archbishop of Canterbury |
John Jortin | 1698 | 1770 | Ecclesiastical historian |
David Hartley | 1705 | 1757 | Philosopher |
Laurence Sterne | 1713 | 1768 | Novelist |
Henry Venn | 1725 | 1797 | A leader of the Evangelical movement in the Church of England |
Gilbert Wakefield | 1756 | 1801 | Principal of two nonconformist academies |
Thomas Robert Malthus | 1766 | 1834 | Population theorist |
William Otter | 1768 | 1840 | First Principal of King's College London |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772 | 1834 | Poet, critic and philosopher |
David Barttelot | 1821 | 1852 | Cricketer |
James Wemyss [38] | 1828 | 1909 | Politician |
William Percy Carpmael | 1853 | 1936 | Founder of the Barbarians' Rugby Club |
Sandford Schultz | 1857 | 1937 | England cricketer |
Charles Whibley | 1859 | 1930 | Journalist and author |
Herbert Williams | 1860 | 1937 | Bishop of Waiapu, New Zealand |
Steve Fairbairn | 1862 | 1938 | Rowing coach |
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch | 1863 | 1944 | Novelist and critic |
Henry Hutson | 1868 | 1916 | Cricketer |
Gregor MacGregor | 1869 | 1919 | Scotland Rugby Union player and England cricketer |
Bertram Fletcher Robinson | 1870 | 1907 | Author, journalist and editor |
John Maxwell Edmonds | 1875 | 1958 | Classicist, poet. dramatist and writer of celebrated epitaphs |
Robert Stanford Wood | 1886 | 1963 | First Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton |
Bernard Vann | 1887 | 1918 | Recipient of the Victoria Cross and League footballer for Derby County from 1906 to 1907 |
Sir Harold Scott | 1887 | 1969 | Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service from 1945 to 1953 |
E. M. W. Tillyard | 1889 | 1962 | Literary critic, master[ clarification needed ] (1945–1959) |
Hon. F.S. G. Calthorpe | 1892 | 1935 | England cricket captain |
Tom Lowry | 1898 | 1976 | New Zealand cricket captain |
Alistair Cooke | 1908 | 2004 | Broadcaster |
Jacob Bronowski | 1908 | 1974 | Scientist and mathematician |
Tom Killick | 1907 | 1953 | England cricketer |
Lord (Saville) Garner | 1908 | 1983 | British High Commissioner to Canada, Head of the Diplomatic Service |
James Reeves | 1909 | 1978 | Author and literary critic |
Don Siegel | 1912 | 1991 | American film director and producer |
David Clive Crosbie Trench | 1915 | 1988 | 24th Governor of Hong Kong |
Peter Mitchell | 1920 | 1992 | Biochemist; won the 1978 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of the chemiosmotic mechanism of ATP synthesis |
Sir John Jardine Paterson | 1920 | 2000 | Businessman in India |
Raymond Williams | 1921 | 1988 | Literary and cultural critic |
Harry Johnson | 1923 | 1977 | Economist |
Edwin Boston | 1924 | 1986 | Clergyman and steam enthusiast |
Maurice Cowling | 1926 | 2005 | Historian of "high politics" |
Harold Perkin | 1926 | 2004 | Social historian |
J. B. Steane | 1928 | 2011 | Music critic and musicologist |
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon | 1930 | 2017 | Photographer and film-maker and ex-husband to the late Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth II's sister |
Peter Hurford | 1930 | 2019 | Organist and composer |
David McCutchion | 1930 | 1972 | Academic |
Michael Podro | 1931 | 2008 | Art historian |
Richard Hey Lloyd | 1933 | 2021 | Organist and composer |
Ted Dexter | 1935 | 2021 | England cricket captain |
Peter G. Fletcher | 1936 | 1996 | British conductor and author |
Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn | 1937 | Archaeologist | |
Barry Kay | 1939 | 2020 | Immunologist |
Fernando Vianello | 1939 | 2009 | Italian economist |
Deryck Murray | 1943 | West Indies cricketer | |
Lisa Jardine | 1944 | 2015 | Historian |
Roger Scruton | 1944 | 2020 | Philosopher |
Paul Harrison | 1945 | Founder of the World Pantheist Movement, UNEP Global 500 Roll of Honour, author | |
Roger Toulson | 1946 | 2017 | Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom |
Sir David Hare | 1947 | Playwright | |
Stefan Collini | 1947 | Literary critic and historian | |
Sir Rupert Jackson | 1948 | Justice of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales | |
Simon Hornblower | 1949 | Professor of Classics and Grote Professor of Ancient History, University College London | |
Aidan Bellenger | 1950 | Historian, former abbot of Downside Abbey. [39] | |
Tony Wilson | 1950 | 2007 | Journalist, founder of Factory Records |
David Wootton | 1950 | Lord Mayor of London | |
Kimberley Rew | 1951 | Songwriter and guitarist | |
Malcolm Archer | 1952 | Director of Chapel Music at Winchester College | |
Bernard Silverman | 1952 | British statistician and Master of St Peter's College, Oxford. | |
Geoff Hoon | 1953 | Former Secretary of State for Defence, Chief Whip, Secretary to the Treasury and Secretary of State for Transport | |
Anthony Julius | 1956 | British lawyer | |
Andrew Mitchell | 1956 | Secretary of State for International Development (from May 2010) | |
Nick Hornby | 1957 | Novelist and journalist | |
Shaun Woodward | 1958 | British politician, former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland | |
John Baron | 1959 | British Conservative politician | |
James O'Donnell | 1961 | Organist and Master of the Choristers of Westminster Abbey | |
Theodore Huckle | 1962 | Counsel General for Wales | |
Glen Goei | 1962 | Film and theatre director | |
Quentin Letts | 1963 | British journalist, currently writing for the New Statesman | |
Andrew Solomon | 1963 | Writer and professor of Clinical Psychology; winner of the 2001 National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist | |
Prince Edward | 1964 | Duke of Edinburgh | |
James Wood | 1965 | Literary critic | |
Philip Hensher | 1965 | Novelist and journalist | |
Stephanie Theobald | 1966 | Novelist and journalist | |
Lewis Pugh | 1969 | Endurance swimmer and Ocean advocate | |
Turi King | 1969 | Professor of Public engagement and Geneticsat the University of Leicester [40] | |
Giles Dilnot | 1971 | Television presenter and journalist | |
Charles Harrison | 1974 | Organist and Master of the Choristers of Chichester Cathedral | |
Ros Atkins | 1974 | Journalist | |
Dominic Sandbrook | 1974 | Historian | |
Alexis Taylor | 1980 | Musician with Hot Chip, composer, singer | |
Grace Chatto | 1985 | Musician with Clean Bandit and Massive Violins, singer | |
Jason Forbes | 1990 | Actor, comedian |
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