Editing Trinity Hall, Cambridge (section)

== Buildings ==
[[File:Front_Court_Trinity_Hall,_Cambridge.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Front court]]
[[File:Jerwood Library Trinity Hall Cambridge.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|right|The Jerwood Library in Latham Court backs on to the [[River Cam]] next to [[Bridges in Cambridge|Garret Hostel Bridge]].]]

The College site on the [[River Cam|Cam]] was originally obtained from Bateman's purchase of a house from John de Crauden, Prior of Ely, to house the monks during their study, with Front Court being built within the college's first few decades. The medieval structures remain unaltered, but with their façade altered to a more [[baroque]] style during the Mastership of [[Nathaniel Lloyd|Sir Nathaniel Lloyd]] in 1710-45.<ref>[https://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/library/exiled-infamous-creature-the-case-of-philips-nichols/ The Philips Nichols Scandal of 1731]</ref>

=== Chapel ===

The Chapel was licensed in 1352 and was built by August 1366, when Blessed [[Urban V|Pope Urban V]] granted the College permission to celebrate Holy Mass there. Its present decor stems from its 1729–30 renovation; Lloyd had pre-existing graves removed to the Ante-Chapel, and the walls decorated with [[Panelling#Wainscot panelling|wainscotting]] and the ceiling with past Masters' [[Escutcheon (heraldry)|crests]]. The Chapel was extended east in 1864, during which the original [[piscina]] was discovered and hidden behind a secret door. The painting behind the [[communion table]] is [[Maso da San Friano]]'s ''Salutation'', loaned from the [[Fitzwilliam Museum]] in 1957, replacing an earlier painting by [[Giacomo Stella]].

=== Dining Hall ===

The Dining Hall was rebuilt under Lloyd along similar lines to the Chapel, with rendered walls replaced by wainscotting and medieval beams by baroque carvings. A large portrait of Lloyd dominates the wall behind [[high table]]; Lloyd supposedly made it irremovable from its wainscot surroundings, so that his representation can never be erased from the College.

=== Libraries ===

The college library was built in the late 16th century, with the permission of [[Elizabeth I]] and probably during the mastership of [[Thomas Preston (writer)|Thomas Preston]], and is now principally used for the storage of the college's manuscripts and rare books; it is one of the few remaining [[chained library|chained libraries]] left in the country. The new Jerwood Library overlooking the river was opened by [[Geoffrey Howe|Lord Howe of Aberavon]] in 1999, and stores the college's modern book collection.

=== Other ===

The college owns properties in the centre of Cambridge, on Bateman Street and Thompson's Lane, and on its Wychfield site next to [[Fitzwilliam College]], where most of the college's sporting activity takes place. [[Mary Hockaday]] was appointed Master in May 2022 and took up the post in September that year.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/news/mary-hockaday-takes-up-post-as-master/ | title=Mary Hockaday takes up post as Master }}</ref>