St John's Street, Cambridge — St John's College gatehouse and All Saints Jewry

St John's Street

The north end of the great college street, under the tower of St John's.

From Trinity Street To Bridge Street / Round Church Street City Centre 1 place listed

St John's Street is the northern end of the long run that starts at Trumpington Street and passes through King's Parade and Trinity Street. At the north end, four roads come together: Bridge Street, Round Church Street, Sidney Street and St John's Street itself. This is the heart of the older college district.

St John's College fills the west side and gave the street its name. Its crenellated gatehouse is the visual centre, and the tower of the college chapel rises over the northern end. Green Street links the south end of the street with Sidney Street, so it makes a convenient shopping detour.

Lost church, Victorian divinity school

All Saints Jewry, a medieval parish church, stood on this street. Rebuilt once, in 1820, it was demolished in 1865; the ground has stayed open as a green. The parish did not disappear: the Victorian All Saints church now stands a short walk east along Jesus Lane.

Across the road from the college is the former School of Divinity, built in 1878–79 to designs by Basil Champneys for the university's divinity faculty, on land St John's leased out. The college regained control of it in 2000, once the faculty had relocated to the Sidgwick Site, and it is now one of the buildings of the college's All Saints' Yard.

At the north end the street runs out beside the Holy Sepulchre, the Round Church, a Norman building on the corner of Bridge Street.

Sources: Wikipedia: St John's Street, Cambridge · Wikidata: St John's Street, Cambridge (Q7593625)

St John's Street

Lost church, Victorian divinity school

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