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King's Parade

King's Parade

King's Parade, with King's College Chapel on one side and the University Church on the other.

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King's Parade is the central stretch of the long spine that runs from Trumpington Street in the south to Trinity Street and St John's Street in the north. It takes its name from King's College, whose screen and gatehouse form the west side and whose chapel shows its eastern end above the wall. It is a major tourist area, and also a daily commuting route for students and cyclists.

The east side holds the Church of St Mary the Great, the University Church, facing the Senate House near the north end, a part of the street known as Senate House Hill. Degree ceremonies are held in the Senate House, so graduation days bring a crowd in academic dress. Two passages run east off the street, St Edward's Passage and St Mary's Passage.

A street that was rebuilt

The row of buildings on the west side was cleared away when the college's gatehouse and screen went up in the 1830s. Before that, a tavern on King's Lane had been a gathering place for English reformers interested in Lutheran ideas from about 1521; it came down when the screen was lengthened in 1870, and a plaque set up inside Chetwynd Court, in King's, now records the spot.

Opposite the college, the shops are largely aimed at visitors, among them the Primavera Gallery. Books have been sold on the corner of King's Parade and Trinity Street since 1581, and the site is now the Cambridge University Press bookshop. Number 6 was, in the 1970s, the first office of the company that became Sinclair Research.

Corpus Clock

Where the street meets Trumpington Street, at the edge of Corpus Christi College, stands the Corpus Clock, installed in 2008 and now a visitor attraction in its own right.

Sources: Wikipedia: King's Parade · Wikidata: King's Parade (Q6411046)

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