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Elizabeth I's Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the site of a thirteenth-century Dominican friary, as a Protestant college to train clergy — an ethos that drew Puritan families and, in time, emigrants to New England.\n\nChristopher Wren's chapel of 1677, with its arcaded gallery, closes Front Court in confident English Baroque, while the eighteenth-century Classical facade on St Andrew's Street conceals gardens, a duck pond in the Paddock and ranges from the college's Elizabethan beginnings.\n\nNearby on foot · Central-S **Find Emmanuel College and the closest colleges.**\n\nExplore around Emmanuel College\n\n The map will load when you reach it.\n\n52.2036°N, 0.1237°W [Get directions]()\n\nOn the same walk\n\n### Closest to\n*this one.*\n\n[3 min walk **Christ's College** Central]()[4 min walk **Downing College** Central-S]()[5 min walk **Pembroke College** Central]()[5 min walk **Corpus Christi College** Central]()\n\nOn a visit\n\n### Don’t *miss.*\n\n1. 01 Wren's chapel of 1677 and its arcaded gallery\n2. 02 Front Court and the Westmorland Building\n3. 03 The duck pond in the Paddock\n4. 04 The John Harvard commemorative window in the chapel\n5. 05 The Fellows' Garden plane tree\n\nConnected to\n\n### Notable\n*names.*\n\n- John Harvard (benefactor of Harvard University)\n- William Sancroft (Archbishop of Canterbury)\n- Thomas Young (polymath and physicist)\n- Graham Chapman (Monty Python)\n- Sebastian Faulks (novelist)\n- Griff Rhys Jones (comedian and writer)\n\nBefore you go\n\n#### Visiting Emmanuel College\n\nThe grounds and chapel are open to the public daily between 9am and 6pm with no charge for entry, via the Porters' Lodge on St Andrew's Street; any temporary closures are notified on the college website.\n\nOpening hours, admission and access change often — check the [official site]() before you travel.\n\nFounded\n\n1584\n\nArea\n\nCentral-s — St Andrew's Street\n\nType\n\nCollege\n\nBefore you visit\n\n### Check hours, tickets and access.\n\nCheck opening hours, admission prices and access with the venue before setting off.\n\nUpdated\n\nDate unavailable\n\nBy\n\n[Above Guide Editorial Team]()\n\nUseful links\n\n- [Official site emma.cam.ac.uk ↗]()\n- [Reference identity en.wikipedia.org ↗]()\n\n[Report a correction]()\n\nKeep exploring\n\n### Where to\n*next.*\n\n[All colleges]()[Neighbourhoods]()[Things to Do]()" }