Editing Peterhouse, Cambridge (section)

====Chapel====
[[File:Cambridge Peterhouse Chapel.JPG|thumb|left|Interior of the Chapel]]

Viewed from the main entrance to Peterhouse on Trumpington Street, the altar end of the Chapel is the most immediately visible building. The Chapel was built in 1628 when the [[Master (college)|Master]] of the time [[Matthew Wren]] ([[Christopher Wren]]'s uncle) demolished the college's original hostels. Previously the college had employed the adjacent [[Little St Mary's, Cambridge|Church of St Mary the Less]] as its chapel. The Chapel was consecrated on 17 March 1632 by [[Francis White (Bishop)|Francis White]], Bishop of Ely.<ref name="cooper" /> The building's style reflects the contemporary religious trend towards [[Arminianism]]. The [[Laudian]] [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] style of the Chapel mixes [[Renaissance]] details but incorporated them into a traditional [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] building. The Chapel's [[Renaissance]] architecture contains a [[Pietà]] altarpiece and a striking ceiling of golden suns. Its placement in the centre of one side of a court, between open colonnades is unusual, being copied for a single other college ([[Emmanuel College, Cambridge|Emmanuel]]) by [[Christopher Wren]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pet.cam.ac.uk/virtualtour/arch_tour/061.html|work=Peterhouse Architectural Tour|title=Old Court, Looking East|access-date=8 September 2008|publisher=Peterhouse, Cambridge |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080529023626/http://www.pet.cam.ac.uk/virtualtour/arch_tour/061.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 29 May 2008}}</ref> The original stained glass was destroyed by [[roundhead|Parliamentarians]] in 1643, with only the east window's crucifixion scene (based on [[Peter Paul Rubens|Rubens]]'s ''Le Coup de Lance'') surviving.{{refn|group=nb|"We went to Peter-house, 1643, December 21, with officers and soldiers, and in the presence of Mr. Hanscott, Mr. Wilson, the President Mr. Francis, Mr. Maxey, and other Fellows... We pulled down two mighty great angells, with wings, and divers other angells, and the 4 Evangelists, and Peter, with his keies on the chappell door and about a hundred chirubims and angells, and divers superstitious letters in gold."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Cooper|first1=Trevor|title=The Journal of William Dowsing: Iconoclasm in East Anglia during the English Civil War|date=26 April 2001|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=978-0851158334}}</ref>}} The current side windows are by [[Max Emanuel Ainmiller|Max Ainmiller]], and were added in 1855. The cloisters on each side of the Chapel date from the 17th century. Their design was classicised in 1709, while an ornamental porch was removed in 1755. The Peterhouse Partbooks, music manuscripts from the early years of the Chapel, survive, and are one of the most important collections of Tudor and Jacobean church music. The Chapel Choir, one of the smallest in Cambridge, has recently attracted wider interest for its regular performances of this material, some of which has not been heard since the 16th century. The Organ in the Chapel was installed in 1765 [[John Snetzler]]. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Organ was expanded and renovated by [[William Hill & Son|Hill & Son]] (1893-94) and [[Noel Mander]] (1963). In 2023, the Organ underwent a substantial restoration and renovation project by [[Flentrop]] and [[Klais Orgelbau|Klais]]. This restoration uniquely provides two mechanical-action consoles: one 'historic' console intended to recreate the experience of playing Snetzler's original instrument; the other a contemporary console, to allow for the performance of a wider range of repertoire.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Organ {{!}} Peterhouse |url=https://www.pet.cam.ac.uk/organ |access-date=2024-10-28 |website=www.pet.cam.ac.uk}}</ref> 

The first person buried in the Chapel was Samuel Horne, a fellow of the college.<ref name="cooper" /> Horne was probably chaplain.

[[File:Gisborne Court. Peterhouse.jpg|thumb|I and H staircases, Gisborne Court, Peterhouse]]