Jesus College, Cambridge, was founded in 1496 by John Alcock, Bishop of Ely, on the site of a former Benedictine nunnery known as St Mary and St Radegund. The college’s full formal name is “The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the Glorious Virgin Saint Radegund” but it is commonly called Jesus College. The college chapel, known as Jesus Chapel, is the oldest university building still in use in Cambridge and predates the college and even the university itself by centuries.
 
Originally, Jesus College was a small residential community of priests and clerics who also ran a free grammar school for choristers. The architecture is still monastic in womderful warm brick
 
interesting facts...
Jesus College Oxford has some intriguing historical and ghostly stories. A notable one is from 1947 when a ghost, believed to be connected to a Civil War legend, was reportedly seen digging holes in the Principal’s garden. The ghostly figure was described as a strangely dressed man who appeared at night, but no disturbance was found the next morning. In fact Oxford has a similar story at its colleges, shows how related these two actually are.