Editing King's College, Cambridge (section)

=== 20th century ===

In 1909, the south range of a third new courtyard – named after its architect [[Aston Webb]] – was built to the south of the library.  In 1927, designs by G.&nbsp;L.&nbsp;Kennedy completed Bodley's Court with a new northern range, and Webb's Court with a new Provost's Lodge on its western side.{{sfn|Saltmarsh|1959}}{{r|kings-history}}

In 1930, a [[Cambridgeshire Constabulary|Cambridge Borough Police]] officer was shot dead by a student who also shot his tutor in the same incident.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.policememorial.org.uk/index.php?page=cambridgeshire-constabulary | title=Cambridgeshire Constabulary | work=National Police Officers Roll of Honour and Remembrance in Memory of British Police Officers who Lost their Lives in the Line of Duty | publisher=Police Roll of Honour Trust | access-date= 19 July 2012}}</ref>

On 1 September 1939, the day of the [[Invasion of Poland|German invasion of Poland]] and the cause of the UK's entrance into [[World War II]], permission was sought from the College Council to remove the stained glass from the east window of the chapel. By the end of 1941, all the ancient glass had been removed to various cellars in Cambridge for safekeeping.  Despite most of the windows of the chapel being covered over by sheets of tar-paper, which rattled loudly in the wind, the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols continued to be broadcast from the chapel every Christmas Eve throughout the war – even though the name of the college could not be broadcast for security reasons. King's took the opportunity of these years to clean, repair and photograph the glass. By 1949, all the windows had been restored.<ref name="kings-9lessons"/><ref name="kings-saveglass">{{cite web|title=Saving the Chapel windows|url=http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/archive-centre/college-archives/tour/buildings/windows.html|access-date=19 July 2012|work=Archive Centre|publisher=King's College, Cambridge}}</ref>

[[File:King's College Chapel, Cambridge, altare.JPG|thumb|upright=1.7|left|[[Rubens]]' ''Adoration of the Magi'' behind the chapel altar]]
In 1961, the property millionaire [[Alfred Ernest Allnatt]] offered King's the ''[[Adoration of the Magi (Rubens, Cambridge)|Adoration of the Magi]]'' by [[Peter Paul Rubens]], which he had purchased in 1959 for a world-record price.  The college accepted "this munificent gift" with the intention of displaying the painting in the chapel, possibly as an altarpiece. The painting was initially displayed in the antechapel but a significant faction of the fellowship – including [[Michael Jaffé]] and the Provost [[Noel Annan, Baron Annan|Noel Annan]] – were determined for the painting to become the focal point of an entirely redesigned east end planned by the architect Sir Martyn Beckett, who was "philosophical about the furore this inevitably occasioned – which quickly became acceptance of a solution to a difficult problem."<ref>{{cite news |title=Obituary: Sir Martyn Beckett, Bt |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1336490/Sir-Martyn-Beckett-Bt.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1336490/Sir-Martyn-Beckett-Bt.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=2 September 2019 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=6 August 2001}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

As the first stage of this project, the Edwardian [[reredos]] and 17th-century wood panelling were removed and the Rubens installed in their stead behind the altar in April 1964.  The painting was so big that the raised floor of the chapel's east end, required by the 1448 ''Founder's Will'', would have to be levelled so as to prevent the [[baroque]] artwork obscuring the bottom of the Tudor east window.  However 20 fellows and the honorary fellow [[E.&nbsp;M.&nbsp;Forster]] signed a letter urging the college to reverse its plan and "admit that it has made a mistake"; the levelling of the floor nevertheless went ahead. The newly refitted east end opened in 1968 and proved highly controversial, with the ''[[Architects' Journal]]'' criticising it as "motivated not by the demands of liturgical worship but by those of museum display."<ref name="indy-rubens">{{cite news|title=A season for crying in the chapel: Millions will enjoy today's festival of carols from King's College, Cambridge. But Graham Chainey mourns a botched 'restoration'|first=Graham |last=Chainey|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/a-season-for-crying-in-the-chapel-millions-will-enjoy-todays-festival-of-carols-from-kings-college-cambridge-but-graham-chainey-mourns-a-botched-restoration-1565376.html|access-date= 19 July 2012 | newspaper= The Independent | location=London | date=24 December 1992}}</ref>

The last main-site building to be erected by the college was the Keynes Building, finished in 1967 and named after the former college bursar [[John Maynard Keynes]].  This building enclosed Chetwynd Court along with the Wilkins' and Scott's buildings, and provided more than 70 en-suite accommodation rooms along with other facilities.{{r|kings-history}}

The first women students arrived at King's in 1972, one of the first three previously all-male colleges to admit women.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-08-31 |title=Five decades after Cambridge colleges went co-ed, too little has changed|first=Stella|last=Hughes |newspaper=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/db52b02b-088f-4bfc-8e66-ce7dda0267fc |access-date=2023-04-25}}</ref>

The college, along with most others at the university, had been all-male since its foundation. However, under the provost [[Edmund Leach]], King's together with [[Churchill College|Churchill]] and Clare became the first three previously all-male colleges to admit women.

Henry VI is not completely forgotten at the college.  The Saturday after the end of [[Michaelmas term]] each year is Founder's Day, which begins with a Founder's Eucharist in the chapel, followed by a Founder's Breakfast with ale and culminating in a sumptuous dinner in his memory called "Founder's Feast" to which all members of college in their third year of studies are invited.