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Histon is a village and civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It is immediately north of Cambridge – and is separated from the city – by the A14 road which runs east–west.
The college spent over 150 years attempting to obtain a purpose-built chapel Emmanuel College Chapel [93] c. 1590 Church of England: Original chapel (previously dining hall of Dominican friary) became library. Current Christopher Wren structure 1677.
Moses Carter (c. 1801 – 8 July 1860 [1]), known as 'The Histon Giant', was a strongman who lived in the village of Histon, near Cambridge in the United Kingdom. During his life Carter was famous locally for a number of feats of strength, the best-known today being his carrying of a large boulder from a ballast hole on Park Lane to 'Boot ...
Initially it was a wayfarers' chapel on the Roman road known as Via Devana (this is now Bridge Street). [5] By the middle of the 13th century it had become a parish church under the patronage of Barnwell Priory.
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The Chapel's large stained glass windows were completed by 1531, and its early Renaissance rood screen was erected in 1532–36. The Chapel is an active house of worship, and home of the King's College Choir. It is a landmark and a commonly used symbol of the city of Cambridge. [4] [5]
Guyhirn Chapel: Wisbech St Mary 1660 1960 Church of England: Churches Conservation Trust: St Mary Magdalene, Guyhirn Wisbech St Mary Mary Magdalene: 1878 Church of England: Sold for conversion before 2012 [35] St John the Baptist, Parson Drove: Parson Drove: John the Baptist: Medieval 1974 Church of England: Parish church 1870.
The Lodge and Chapel at Cambridge City Cemetery. Cambridge City Cemetery is the main burial ground for the city of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire. It is to the north of the city, at the junction of Newmarket Road and Ditton Lane, near to Cambridge Airport. The cemetery held its first burial on 6 June 1903 when it was known as Cambridge Borough ...