Rushworth College

The College of Saint John the Evangelist of Rushworth, commonly called Rushworth College, was a college in the present-day village of Rushford in Norfolk. It was founded in 1342 by Edmund Gonville, the original founder of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, as a small community of priests dedicated to saying chantries for Gonville and his heirs.[1] The college existed until the English Reformation when its lands and endowment were subsumed into Gonville Hall.[2]

References
  1. Page, William (1906). A History of the County of Norfolk, vol. 2. London: Victoria County History. pp. 458–60.
  2. Venn, John (1901). Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 2, 27.

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