Cambridge No. 18 / Grentebrige

INFORMATION

FontID: 20483CAM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John Baptist [aka St. John Zachary's -- demolished]
Church Location: [originally located on Milne St, Cambridge]
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: [originally located on Milne St -- coordinates given are for King's College Chapel]
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Ely]
Historical Region: Hundred of Cambridge
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Early English
There are five entries for Cambridge [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4458/cambridge/] [accessed 29 March 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 3, 1959) notes: "The church of St. John Baptist, commonly called St. John Zachary, is first mentioned in the taxation of 1217. It stood on the west side of Milne Street [...] Besides being the parish church it served as a chapel for the scholars of Clare Hall and of Trinity Hall. [...] The church was probably destroyed soon after 25 July 1446, when the first stone of King's College Chapel was laid. [...] By 1453 it had been rebuilt at the charges of Henry VI at the north-west corner of the Old Court of King's College [...] This second edifice is last mentioned in 1488–9; it was presumably allowed to fall into decay [...] its site was used for King's College buildings"; no font mentioned in the VCH entry.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 302943 5787731

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-03-31 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.