Cambridge Blackfriars
The new site is at Buckingham Road, Cambridge, close to Murray Edwards College. Two existing houses were linked by a new wing in 1961-2 designed by David Roberts. The original house was offered to the Order in 1938 by the widow of Professor Edward Bullough. The second house, Howfield, the family home of Arthur Stanley Ramsey, was bought in 1955.
The medieval Dominican Friary was founded before 1238. At the time of its dissolution in 1538, there was a prior and fifteen others. The last prior Gregory Dodds was later Dean of Exeter. A friar John Scory in 1551 became a bishop in the Church of England. Emmanuel College was founded on the site in 1584 and the college's Front Court incorporates 14th-century work from the Friary, in the North Range and Hall.
The statue of the virgin and child now in the Church of Our Lady and the English Martyrs in Cambridge is reputed to have been in the Dominican Friary before the dissolution. In 1538 John Hilsey sent Gregory Dodds to Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's chief minister, to request that the image of Our Lady of Grace be removed from the friary. The statue now in the church is said to have been discovered in Emmanuel College in 1850.
References
- ^ "Medieval Priory".
- ^ Salzman, L. F., ed. (1948). "Domincans, Cambridge". A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely. Victoria County History. Vol. 2. Oxford and New York: University of London Institute of Historical Research, Oxford University Press. pp. 269–276. OCLC 10778399.
- ^ Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, England (1959). An inventory of the historical monuments in the City of Cambridge. London: HMSO. pp. 298–304. OCLC 858489102.
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