Editing Trinity College, Cambridge (section)

===Nevile's expansion===
[[File:Trinity College Cambridge 1690.jpg|thumb|left|300px|[[David Loggan]]'s print of 1690 showing Nevile's Great Court (foreground) and Nevile's Court with the then-new [[Wren Library]] (background) – New Court had yet to be built.]]

The monastic lands granted by [[Henry VIII]] were not on their own sufficient to ensure Trinity's eventual rise. In terms of architecture and royal association, it was not until the Mastership of Thomas Nevile (1593–1615) that Trinity assumed both its spaciousness and its association with the governing class that distinguished it since the Civil War. In its infancy Trinity had owed a great deal to its neighbouring college of [[St John's College, Cambridge|St John's]]: in the words of [[Roger Ascham]], Trinity was a ''colonia deducta''.<ref name="british-history1">{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66656#s20 |title=The colleges and halls – Trinity College &#124; British History Online |publisher=British-history.ac.uk |access-date=25 March 2010 |archive-date=26 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526040047/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66656#s20 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Most of Trinity's major buildings date from the 16th and 17th centuries. [[Thomas Nevile]], who became Master of Trinity in 1593, rebuilt and redesigned much of the college. This work included the enlargement and completion of [[Trinity Great Court|Great Court]] and the construction of [[Nevile's Court, Trinity College, Cambridge|Nevile's Court]] between Great Court and the [[river Cam]]. Nevile's Court was completed in the late 17th century with the [[Wren Library]], designed by [[Christopher Wren]]. Nevile's building campaign drove the college into debt from which it surfaced only in the 1640s, and the Mastership of [[Richard Bentley]] adversely affected applications and finances.<ref name="british-history1"/> Bentley himself was notorious for the construction of a hugely expensive staircase in the Master's Lodge and for his repeated refusals to step down despite pleas from the Fellows. Besides, despite not being a sister college of [[Trinity College Dublin|Trinity College]] in Dublin, as is the case with [[St John's College, Cambridge|Saint John's College]], Cambridge, it is believed that the Irish institution takes its name from this college, which was the ''alma mater'' of its first provost, [[Adam Loftus (bishop)|Adam Loftus]] and, likewise, from the Oxford [[Trinity College, Oxford|college]] of the same name.