Before the Wren Library

This is the first in a series of blogs which will focus on aspects of the architecture, decoration and furnishing of the Wren Library but to begin we will take a look at the Old Library. Trinity College was founded 1546 by an amalgamation of the fourteenth-century colleges of King’s Hall and Michaelhouse. Both of …

Wren’s lecterns on tour to exhibition

Trinity College Library has lent some of the rotating lecterns and readers' stools designed by Sir Christopher Wren as part of the furnishing of the Wren Library to a pop-up exhibition at Downing College. Over the last two years Cambridge-based photographer Sara Rawlinson has taken pictures of almost all of the College libraries in Cambridge. …