Its hard to believe we actually stayed in a guest room in a part of living history!!
St Johns College was founded in 1511 by Henry VIII's grandmother. We stayed in the "New Court" built in 1826, a third addition to the College and walked over the "Bridge of Sighs" each morning to breakfast.
We had dinner at the high table, with all the fellows in their gowns, silver candle sticks and silver water mugs, followed by tea and coffee upstairs in a huge room totally lit by candles on the walls and on the long table stretching the full length of the room. Of course tea and coffee were served from silver tea/coffee pots!
Breakfast was behind one door off the courtyard, there was a full bar behind another door off the courtyard. A chapel hidden behind another door, and a huge dining room behind yet another. Upstairs were all the studies and rooms of the students and fellows who lived and worked there.
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| New Court, St Johns |
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| New Court, St Johns |
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| Original courtyard, St Johns |
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| Bridge of Sighs |
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