Cambridge - Pembroke College

Across Trumpington Street from Peterhouse stands Pembroke College, founded in 1347 by the Countess of Pembroke but much altered since. The chapel (1663-65) was Wren's first work, later extended by George Gilbert Scott in 1881. Pembroke has produced many bishops and poets, the most celebrated being Edmund Spenser (ca. 1552-99). The reformist bishop Nicholas Ridley, burned at the stake in Oxford, and the statesman William Pitt also took their degrees here.