Editing Trinity College, Cambridge (section)

===Great Gate===
The Great Gate is the main entrance to the college, leading to the [[Trinity Great Court|Great Court]]. A statue of the college founder, [[Henry VIII]], stands in a niche above the doorway. In 1983, Trinity College undergraduate [[Lance Forman|Lance Anisfeld]], then Vice-President of CURLS (Cambridge Union Raving Loony Society), replaced the chair leg with a bicycle pump. Once discovered the following day, the college removed the pump and replaced it with another chair leg. The original chair leg was auctioned off by TV Presenter Chris Serle at a Cambridge Union Society charity raffle in 1985. In 2023, the college replaced the chair leg with a sceptre to mark the 75th birthday of [[Charles III]], an alumnus of the college.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-67420099 |title=Trinity College statue's chair leg replaced with sceptre |work=BBC News |date=14 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231208174358/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-67420099 |archive-date=8 December 2023}}</ref> In 1704, the University's first [[Astronomy departments in the University of Cambridge|astronomical]] [[observatory]] was built on top of the gatehouse. Beneath the founder's statue are the coats of arms of [[Edward III]], the founder of King's Hall, and those of his five sons who survived to maturity, as well as William of Hatfield, whose shield is blank as he died as an infant, before being granted arms.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/node/1162 |title=Trinity Tour |publisher=Trin.cam.ac.uk |access-date=1 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160703231958/http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/node/1162 |archive-date=3 July 2016 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>