<p>Great Gate, Entrance to Trinity College, Cambridge. Text below based on
'Trinity College', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge (London, 1959), pp. 209-244 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/pp209-244">[1]</a>:
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17th-century metal plates with renewed painted inscriptions in Roman characters, that in the centre with 'Eduardus Tertius Fundator Aule Regis MCCCXXXVII', the rest identifying shields-of-arms in the wall-arcading above. Central panel carved with the Royal arms of Edward III (France (ancient) quartering England (Plantagenet)) with lion supporters and a small shield-of-arms below of John Blyth, Master of King's Hall 1488–98, chaplain to King Henry VII (father of Henry VIII). Shields in arcade surmounted by gilded 17th-century wrought-iron crowns, showing arms of the sons of King Edward III, from left to right:
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<ul><li>Edmund, Duke of York</li>
<li>Lionel, Duke of Clarence</li>
<li>Edward The Black Prince, Prince of Wales, with two shields charged with ostrich feathers painted on the stonework below, and motto 'Ich Dien'</li>
<li>William of Hatfield (blank shield, died in infancy)</li>
<li>John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster</li>
<li>Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester</li></ul>
All  surmounted by a statue of Henry VIII in a niche above. Much of this zone and the stage above belong to the work begun in 1518–19 but pressed on more actively from 1528 and finished by 1535.
Photo: Andreas Praefcke
<span class="int-own-work">Self-photographed</span>