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Category:Trinity College Great Gate, outer (east) face

Great Gate, Entrance to Trinity College, Cambridge. Text below based on 'Trinity College', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge (London, 1959), pp. 209-244: 17th-century metal plates with renewed painted inscriptions in Roman characters, that in the centre with 'Eduardus Tertius Fundator Aule Regis MCCCXXXVII', the rest identifying shields-of-arms in the wall-arcading above. Central panel carved with the Royal arms of Edward III (France (ancient) quartering England (Plantagenet)) with lion supporters and a small shield-of-arms below of John Blyth, Master of King's Hall 1488–98, chaplain to King Henry VII (father of Henry VIII). Shields in arcade surmounted by gilded 17th-century wrought-iron crowns, showing arms of the sons of King Edward III, from left to right:

  • Edmund, Duke of York
  • Lionel, Duke of Clarence
  • Edward The Black Prince, Prince of Wales, with two shields charged with ostrich feathers painted on the stonework below, and motto 'Ich Dien'
  • William of Hatfield (blank shield, died in infancy)
  • John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster
  • Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester

All surmounted by a statue of Henry VIII in a niche above. Much of this zone and the stage above belong to the work begun in 1518–19 but pressed on more actively from 1528 and finished by 1535.

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