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Pembroke College: Trumpington Street: chapel: west façade
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| Date photograph taken: 06 April 2000 |
| Date built: 1663-1665 |
| Architect: Christopher Wren |
Pembroke Chapel was the first building by Christopher Wren. At the time he was a scientist rather than an architect but fortunately became interested in building. His uncle, Matthew Wren, former Master of Peterhouse and Bishop of Ely, paid for the construction and is buried in the chapel. Another architect (and sculptor and carver), Edward Pearce, worked with Wren on the chapel.
The chapel was extended on the other side (to the east) by George Gilbert Scott the younger in 1879-1881.
The cupola of the chapel sits in perfect harmony on top of the building.
Wren's most famous building in Cambridge is the Wren Library at Trinity, but this chapel, and the one at Emmanuel, are if anything more elegant buildings.
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