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  "editorialMarkdown": "Photo: [Cruccone](<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TrinityHallCambridge.jpg>) · [CC BY-SA 2.0](<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>)\n\nCentral · Founded 1350\n\n## Trinity Hall\n\nOne of Cambridge's oldest colleges and among its smallest central ones, a full college despite its name, founded for lawyers and still prized for its riverside garden.\n\n[Official site](<https://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/>)\n\nFounded  1350\n\nWhere  Central\n\nAccess  Check before visiting\n\nType  College\n\nThe college\n\n### A closer\n*look.*\n\nCentral — Trinity Lane\n\n**Founded 1350.** Founded in 1350 by William Bateman, Bishop of Norwich, to train lawyers in canon and civil law after the Black Death had devastated the ranks of the clergy.\n\nMedieval in plan with a Georgian face: the fourteenth-century ranges of Front Court were refaced in smooth ashlar in the eighteenth century, and behind them survive the Elizabethan Old Library, a small early chapel and gardens running down to the Cam.\n\nNearby on foot · Central **Find Trinity Hall and the closest colleges.**\n\nExplore around Trinity Hall\n\n The map will load when you reach it.\n\n52.2058°N, 0.1161°W [Get directions](<https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&destination=52.20583,0.11611>)\n\nOn the same walk\n\n### Closest to\n*this one.*\n\n[1 min walk **Gonville & Caius College** Central](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/gonville-and-caius>)[1 min walk **Clare College** Central](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/clare>)[2 min walk **Trinity College** Central](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/trinity>)[2 min walk **King's College** Central](<https://above.guide/cambridge/colleges/kings>)\n\nOn a visit\n\n### Don’t *miss.*\n\n1. 01  Front Court's Georgian-faced medieval ranges\n2. 02  The Elizabethan Old Library\n3. 03  The riverside garden\n4. 04  The small medieval chapel\n5. 05  The view from Garret Hostel Bridge\n\nConnected to\n\n### Notable\n*names.*\n\n- Stephen Hawking, who came to Trinity Hall as a research student\n- J. B. Priestley\n- Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury\n- Rachel Weisz\n- Andrew Marr\n- Centuries of judges from the lawyers' college\n\nBefore you go\n\n#### Visiting Trinity Hall\n\nVisitors may check in at the Porters' Lodge and walk around the grounds free of charge, but the college is closed to the public from April to June inclusive during the examination term and from 21 December to 2 January.\n\nOpening hours, admission and access change often — check the [official site](<https://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/>) before you travel.\n\nFounded\n\n1350\n\nArea\n\nCentral — Trinity Lane\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 trinhall.cam.ac.uk ↗](<https://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/>)\n- [Reference identity en.wikipedia.org ↗](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Hall,_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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