11 Facts About Magdalene College

Magdalene College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

Audley's successors in the Mastership and as benefactors of the Magdalene College were prone to dire ends; several benefactors were arraigned at various stages on charges of high treason and executed.

Magdalene College remains one of the smaller in the University, numbering some 300 undergraduates.

Magdalene College was first founded in 1428 as Monk's Hostel, which hosted Benedictine student monks.

Walden Abbey, one of the Benedictine abbeys associated with Buckingham Magdalene College, came into the possession of Thomas Audley after the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

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Magdalene College donated to the college seven acres of property at Aldgate in London, which was his reward from Henry VIII for disposing of Anne Boleyn.

Magdalene College was best known for his private diaries, known to critics as the Pepys Diary, which provided a major eyewitness account for the Great Fire of London of 1666.

The following year, Magdalene College made the controversial decision to admit women and become co-residential.

Magdalene College is located at the bend of the River Cam on the northwestern side of the town centre, at the foot of Castle Hill.

The hall itself was first built in the early 16th century, again with many later refurbishments but never gas or electric lighting—Magdalene College's hall is unique in Oxbridge in relying solely on candlelight.

Construction of anew Magdalene College Library began in 2018; the new building, designed by Niall McLaughlin Architects, will offer three times more space.