Easily missed among the more famous colleges (and unconnected to better-known Trinity), diminutive Trinity Hall was founded in 1350 as a refuge for lawyers and clerics escaping the ravages of the Black Death. The college's wood-lined chapel is one of the most beautiful in Cambridge. In normal circumstances, visitors are allowed to enter for evensong at certain times of year; check with the college for current hours and entry fees.
Graduates include writer JB Priestley, astrophysicist Stephen Hawking and actor Rachel Weisz. The college's 16th-century library (not normally open to the public) has original Jacobean reading desks and books chained to shelves.
