Eton College Walk – Monday 17 July
£5.00
5 in stock
Description
Starting at 10.30 outside Cote Brasserie,on the Eton side of Windsor Bridge
Although now famous as a school, Eton College originated as a type of late medieval monastery, founded in 1440 to pray for the soul of king Henry VI. Its educational function only came to the fore when king Edward IV sought its closure; it was never completed as originally intended. But as a royal foundation, its architecture and fabric were intended to impress. This walk around the outside of the college will reveal its exceptional and turbulent history, one of only three medieval colleges in England that were specifically exempted from the monastic closures of Henry VIII’s Reformation.
