St John's College

St John's College is recognizable by the striking, hundred-and-sixty-three-foot tower of its Victorian Gothic chapel, which stands as the third tallest building in Cambridge. Founded in fifteen eleven, the college occupies a site that hosted a monastic hospital as early as the thirteenth century. Although its founder, the Tudor matriarch Lady Margaret Beaufort, died two years before the college officially opened, her friend Bishop John Fisher secured the necessary funding and royal charters to complete her vision.