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1348 Gonville Hall founded

Founded in 1348 by a Norfolk clergyman, Edmund Gonville. It was orginally sited in Free School Lane, roughly in the area of what is now the Master's garden of Corpus Christi College.

Gonville died in 1351, leaving William Bateman, Bishop of Norwich, as his executor. In 1351, Bateman bought a new site in Milne Street, now Trinity Lane, and refounded the College as the Hall of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This site, where Gonville and Caius College now lies, was opposite Trinity Hall, which Bateman founded a year earlier.

Later refounded by Dr Caius.

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