34 entries across places, people, and walks.
Places with medieval origins, either stated on the page or founded before 1500.
The university's main research library, a legal-deposit giant under a brick tower visible across the city.
The Norman castle mound on Castle Hill, where Cambridge's earliest settlement grew.
A complete fourteenth-century dwelling in Chesterton, built for the agents of an Italian abbey.
A round lawn, Milton's mulberry trees and a Modernist 'Typewriter' behind a Tudor gate.
The second-oldest surviving college, with Cambridge's oldest bridge and a view of King's.
Founded by the town's guilds in 1352, with a 14th-century court and the Parker Library.
A 1348 foundation refounded in 1557, with three symbolic gates and the oldest purpose-built college chapel still in use.
The Grade II* parish church of Grantchester, with 12th-century parts, a Norman font and a screen role in a TV drama.
The University Church on King's Parade: a late-medieval tower, two organs and the chimes later borrowed for Big Ben.
A Grade II* city-centre church, long associated with the evangelical preacher Charles Simeon.
A former nunnery with the oldest university building still in use and a walled 'Chimney' entrance.
Henry VI's college, with its Chapel, its choir and the lawn running down to the Backs.
A Tudor-era Gothic chapel with a fan vault, Flemish glass and a Rubens above the altar.
A Grade II* parish church on Trumpington Street that was Peterhouse's chapel until 1632.
A riverside college founded for Benedictine monks, home of Samuel Pepys's library and a Stirling Prize-winning new building.
Cambridge's third-oldest college, with its first Wren chapel and a plaster-ceilinged Old Library.
Cambridge's oldest college, with a 13th-century hall, a Laudian chapel and a 1940s modernist court.
A house of around 1200 within St John's College, described as the oldest secular building in Cambridge.
A Grade II listed city-centre parish church of 1842-43, home to the memorial to Captain Cook's family.
Cherry Hinton's Grade I parish church, with a 13th-century chancel and the oldest bell in the city.
The medieval parish church of Chesterton, with a 15th-century Doom painting and a plaque to a young daughter of Olaudah Equiano.
A parish church with an Anglo-Saxon tower, on the street where Cambridge's oldest standing building meets the Eagle.
A 14th-century parish church by the old south gate, with a medieval rood screen and a richly painted Victorian chancel.
An open three-sided court on Trumpington Street, and the stables behind 'Hobson's choice'.
A Grade II* medieval parish church on Bridge Street, with a mayor's tombstone of 1329 and an Anglo-Catholic past.
A hidden Grade II* church by the Guildhall, sometimes called the Cradle of the Reformation.
A Grade II* Victorian church of 1875 near Castle Mound, on a site founded in 1092 and open daily to visitors.
A Tudor college on both banks of the Cam, with a gate, a hall and the Bridge of Sighs.
A small medieval church by Kettle's Yard, no longer a parish church and cared for by the Churches Conservation Trust.
A c.1130 church modelled on the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, now a visitor centre with an exhibition and guided walks.
A Romanesque chapel of about 1125 on Newmarket Road, once part of a leper hospital and tied to the Stourbridge Fair.
A complete medieval college across the river, with the Mathematical Bridge.
A 1350 foundation on the river with a chained library and an award-winning music building.
A walk through seven stops of the old town, from a round church of about 1130 to Cambridge's oldest college.