3-070-977 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Ridley Hall, Cambridge, for theological students, 1881. 'At the Universities both of Oxford and Cambridge, special establishments have lately been erected for the training and instruction of theological students, "in the principles of the Reformed Protestant Church"...The two halls which have been opened bear the names of Wycliffe and Ridley, historic champions of the Protestant Reformation in England... the architect of Ridlev Hall...at Newnham, Cambridge...is Mr. C. L. Luck...These halls are...intended...to be institutions for assisting to educate resident members of the University, who are candidates for holy orders, and to train them to become good ministers. For the accomplishment of this object, the halls will supply for graduates desirous of pursuing their theological studies an economical residence within the University, so that they may be able to attend the various professors' lectures, and avail themselves of all the other facilities for education afforded at Oxford and Cambridge respectively. This arrangement...will, it is believed, prove very preferable to their going to a diocesan college, previous to their ordination. The principals of the halls will also give lectures to undergraduates'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.