Looking for Class in Cambridge

Harlaxtoners Megan and Caroline take pictures of the grass at King's College on which they are not allowed to walk. The first of many steamy, warm days, and our first outing (though the second tour if one includes the tour through Harlaxton by the guides). If class in a 19th-century manor like Harlaxton is denoted by upstairs/downstairs (or, really, the front stairs for the owners and guests, the back stairs for the servants), class in Cambridge was linked to a hierarchical division between scholars, fellows, and masters. Of course, as the quadrangle organization of the colleges (hall, chapel, library, and rooms or dormitory) suggests, the colleges are a guild-like or ordered society like a monastery. "Class" there is more like the estates or orders of the Middle Ages.

Here we have Harlaxtoner Kristi in front of King's College Chapel. Its perpendicular fan vaulting emphasizes the religiosity of its founder Henry VI and Henry VII. Its large reliefs adorning the inside and outside of the Heraldic signs of the Tudors, Beauforts, etc., emphasize the secular power ideals of its completor, Henry VIII.

I should note that at least one of our classy class, Ashley, has her own blog which not only has a different take on all that we see (and some that only her group sees), but also has some great photos uploaded.