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  "editorialMarkdown": "Central · Founded 1348\n\n## Gonville & Caius College\n\nOne of Cambridge's four oldest colleges, with fifteen Nobel laureates to its name and more than half a century as Stephen Hawking's academic home, entered through Renaissance gates that graduands still pass on their way to the Senate House.\n\n[Official site](<https://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/>)\n\nFounded  1348\n\nWhere  Central\n\nAccess  Check before visiting\n\nType  College\n\nThe college\n\n### A closer\n*look.*\n\nCentral — Trinity Street\n\n**Founded 1348.** Founded in 1348 as Gonville Hall by Edmund Gonville, a Norfolk rector, in the shadow of the Black Death, and refounded in 1557 by John Caius, a former student and royal physician who restored its fortunes and gave the college its double name.\n\nSixteenth-century Caius Court carries John Caius's three allegorical gates — Humility, Virtue and Honour — charting the student's progress towards a degree, while Alfred Waterhouse's Victorian Tree Court range presents a grand frontage to Trinity Street.\n\nNearby on foot · Central **Find Gonville & Caius College and the closest colleges.**\n\nExplore around Gonville & Caius College\n\n The map will load when you reach it.\n\n52.2059°N, 0.1176°W [Get directions](<https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&destination=52.20594,0.11759>)\n\nOn the same walk\n\n### Closest to\n*this one.*\n\n[1 min walk **Trinity Hall** Central](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/trinity-hall>)[1 min walk **Trinity College** Central](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/trinity>)[2 min walk **Clare College** Central](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/clare>)[3 min walk **King's College** Central](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/kings>)\n\nOn a visit\n\n### Don’t *miss.*\n\n1. 01  The Gate of Honour beside Senate House Passage\n2. 02  Sixteenth-century Caius Court\n3. 03  Medieval Gonville Court\n4. 04  Waterhouse's Tree Court frontage on Trinity Street\n5. 05  The chapel containing John Caius's monument\n\nConnected to\n\n### Notable\n*names.*\n\n- William Harvey (discovered the circulation of the blood)\n- Francis Crick (co-discoverer of the structure of DNA)\n- Stephen Hawking (Fellow for over fifty years)\n- Howard Florey (developer of penicillin)\n- James Chadwick (discoverer of the neutron)\n- John Venn (logician, of the Venn diagram)\n\nBefore you go\n\n#### Visiting Gonville & Caius College\n\nThe college is closed to general visitors on weekdays during term, with other access via the Porters' Lodge by prior arrangement, so entry cannot be assumed; prospective applicants are welcome to visit at any time without booking, and current arrangements are set out on the college website.\n\nOpening hours, admission and access change often — check the [official site](<https://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/>) before you travel.\n\nFounded\n\n1348\n\nArea\n\nCentral — Trinity 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](<https://above.guide/cambridge/about#editorial-team>)\n\nUseful links\n\n- [Official site cai.cam.ac.uk ↗](<https://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/>)\n- [Reference identity en.wikipedia.org ↗](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonville_and_Caius_College,_Cambridge>)\n\n[Report a correction](<https://above.guide/cambridge/corrections>)\n\nKeep exploring\n\n### Where to\n*next.*\n\n[All colleges](<https://above.guide/cambridge/explore>)[Neighbourhoods](<https://above.guide/cambridge/neighbourhoods>)[Things to Do](<https://above.guide/cambridge/things-to-do>)"
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