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PAGE 70FRIDAY, 18 MAYThe College and the ChapelQueen’s College, with its mix of medievaland contemporary architecture, sitsastride the River Cam with its two halvesjoined across the river by the famousMathematical Bridge. The bridge (officiallynamed the Wooden Bridge) crosses theRiver Cam and connects the older half ofthe college (affectionately referred to bystudents as The Dark Side) with the newer,western, half (The Light Side, officiallyknown as ‘The Island’). It is one of the mostphotographed scenes in Cambridge; thetypical photo being taken from the nearbySilver Street bridge.The name of Queens’ College is spelledwith the apostrophe after the final “s”because the college was founded bytwo Queens of England - first in 1448 byMargaret of Anjou (daughter of René of Anjou), wife of King Henry VI of England (the founder of King’s College Cambridge), andsecondly in 1465 by Elizabeth Woodville, wife of King Edward IV of England. Among the alumni of the college are DesideriusErasmus, Stephen Fry, Lord Eatwell, Abba Eban and T. H. White.The Chapel building was designed by the architect George Frederick Bodley and consecrated in 1891. All the fixtures and fittingsdate from this time. The chapel replaced the Old Chapel, consecrated in 1451, which was part of the original fabric of OldCourt. The medieval chapel still stands, of course, and was converted after the Second World War into the War Memorial Library.The only significant changes to the appearance of the chapel since 1891 have been the addition of a stained glass window atthe West end of the South side in the 1920s, the addition of the War Memorial after the First World War (significantly expanded,of course, after the Second World War) and the corresponding wood panelling on the opposite wall, the addition of statues ofSt. Margaret of Antioch and St Bernard of Clairvaux (the patron saints of the College) on the East wall on either side of the Eastwindow in the 1930s and the moving of the Lord’s Table away from the East wall in the 1990s. The stained glass windows on theNorth side of the chapel and the great East window are some of the best in Cambridge designed by Charles Eamer Kempe, oneof the most important Victorian stained glass window makers.