To the right on entering the great gateway is the chapel, a late Tudor building begun by Queen Mary and finished by her sister Elizabeth about the year 1567.  The exterior is quite mediaeval, and all the internal woodwork, including the great baldachino of gilded oak, the stalls and the organ screen dividing the chapel into two, dates from the beginning of the eighteenth century.  In the ante-chapel the memory of some of the college’s most distinguished sons is perpetuated in white marble.  Among them we see Macaulay and Newton, whose rooms were between the great gate and the chapel, Tennyson, Whewell—­the master who built the courts bearing his name, was active in revising the college statutes, and died in 1866—­Newton, Bacon, Wordsworth and others.

On the west side of the court, beginning at the northern end, we find ourselves in front of the Lodge, which is the residence of the Master of the College.  The public are unable to see the fine interior with its beautiful dining- and drawing-rooms and the interesting collection of college portraits hanging there, but they can see the famous oriel window built in 1843 with a contribution of L1,000 from Alexander Beresford-Hope.  This sum, however, even with L250 from Whewell, who had just been elected to the mastership, did not cover the cost, and the fellows had to make up the deficit.  It was suggested that Whewell might have contributed more had not his wife dissuaded him, and a fellow wrote a parody of “The House that Jack Built” which culminated in this verse: 

     This is the architect who is rather a muff,
     Who bamboozled those seniors that cut up so rough,
     When they saw the inscription, or rather the puff,
     Placed by the master so rude and so gruff,
     Who married the maid so Tory and tough,
     And lived in the house that Hope built.

The Latin inscription, omitting any reference to the part the fellows took in building the oriel, may still be read on the window.

In the centre of this side of the court is a doorway approached by a flight of steps, and, from the passage to which this leads, we enter the Hall.  It was built in the first decade of the seventeenth century, and the screen over the entrance with the musicians’ gallery behind belongs to that period.

[Illustration:  The entrance gateway of Trinity college.  Trinity was expanded by Henry III from the “great college” built by Edward III.  The gateway dates from about 1535.]

Unfortunately, the panelling along the sides has replaced the old woodwork in recent times.  This beautiful refectory resembles in many ways the Middle Temple Hall in London.  The measurements are similar, it has bay windows projecting at either end of the high table, a minstrels’ gallery at the opposite end, and well into the last century was heated by a great charcoal brazier in the centre.  The fumes found their way into every corner of the hall before