Cambridge - The Backs & Clare College - boats - Salmon postcard c.1970s

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• Picture / Image:  The Backs and Clare College, Cambridge
• Publisher:  Salmon (1-28-01-23 / 1533c)
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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The Backs is a picturesque area to the east of Queen's Road in the city of Cambridge, England, where several colleges of the University of Cambridge back on to the River Cam, their grounds covering both banks of the river. The name ""the Backs"" refers to the backs of the colleges. The area, from Magdalene Street bridge in the north to Silver Street bridge in the south, consists of the rear grounds of the following colleges (north to south):

• Magdalene — grounds on the west bank of the river before the Magdalene Street bridge.
• St John's — buildings on both sides of the river, spanned by the St John's kitchen bridge and the Bridge of Sighs
• Trinity — buildings on the east bank, spanned by Trinity bridge.
• Trinity Hall — buildings on the east bank but with no rear grounds on the west bank.
• Clare — buildings on the east bank, spanned by Clare bridge.
• King's — buildings on the east bank, spanned by King's bridge.
• Queens' — buildings on both sides of the river, spanned by the Mathematical Bridge.

Historically, much of the land was used by the colleges for grazing livestock or growing fruit. The river was also an important commercial thoroughfare to the mill at Silver Street.

College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.

The college was founded in 1326, making it the second-oldest surviving college of the University after Peterhouse. Clare is famous for its chapel choir and for its gardens on ""the Backs"" (the back of the colleges that overlook the River Cam). The current Master is Tony Badger, Paul Mellon Professor of American History.

Clare is consistently one of the most popular Cambridge colleges amongst prospective applicants.^[1] As of 2012, it had an endowment of around £65m.

The college was founded in 1326 by the university's Chancellor, Richard Badew, and was originally named University Hall. Providing maintenance for only two fellows, it soon hit financial hardship. In 1338, the college was refounded as Clare Hall by an endowment from Elizabeth de Clare, a granddaughter of Edward I, which provided for twenty fellows and ten students.^[3] The college was known as Clare Hall until 1856, when it changed its name to ""Clare College"". (A new ""Clare Hall"" was founded by Clare College as an exclusively postgraduate institution in 1966.)

Clare's Old Court, a Grade I listed building, frames King's College Chapel as the left border of one of the most celebrated architectural vistas in England. It was built between 1638 and 1715, with a long interruption for the English Civil War. The period spans the arrival of true classicism into the mainstream of British architecture, such that its progress can be traced in the marked differences between the oldest wing to the north, which still has vaulting and other features in the unbroken tradition of English Gothic, and the final southern block, which shows a fully articulated classic style. The college's chapel was built in 1763 and designed by Sir James Burrough, the Master of neighbouring Caius College.^{[citation needed]} Its altarpiece is Annunciation by Cipriani.

Clare has a much-photographed bridge over the river which is the oldest of Cambridge's current bridges. Fourteen stone balls decorate it, one of which has a missing section. A number of apocryphal stories circulate concerning this - the one most commonly cited by members of college is that the original builder of the bridge was not paid the full amount for his work and so removed the segment to balance the difference in payment. A more likely explanation is that a wedge of stone cemented into the ball as part of a repair job became loose and fell out into the river.

Clare's bridge connects Old Court to Memorial Court, which was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott and dedicated in 1926. A new court, Lerner Court, was opened in January 2008^[4] and was designed by architects van Heyningen and Haward. It occupies the last piece of undeveloped land in the central area of the College next to Memorial Court and houses a lecture theatre, catering, fellows offices, residential acommodation and a student laundry.

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