Road. The club-rooms and debating hall
of the Cambridge Union Society are adjacent to the Holy Sepulchre
church.

The non-collegiate students of the university (i.e. those who receive
the university education and possess the same status as collegiate
students without belonging to any college) have lecture and other rooms
and a library in Fitzwilliam Hall. This body was created in 1869. The
students reside in lodgings. There are two women's colleges--Girton,
established in 1873 on the north-western outskirts of the town, having
been previously opened at Hitchin in 1869, and Newnham (1875),
originally (1873) a hall of residence for students attending special
lectures for women. Among other educational establishments mention must
be made of the Leys school, founded in 1875 by prominent Wesleyans for
non-sectarian education, and the Perse School, an ancient foundation
remodelled in 1902.

Non-university buildings.

Out of a number of ancient churches in Cambridge, two, besides Great St
Mary's, deserve special notice. In St Benedict's or Benet's, which has
been already mentioned in connexion with Corpus College, the tower is of
great interest, being the oldest surviving building in Cambridge, of
pre-Norman workmanship, having rude ornamentation on the exterior and
the tower arch within. The church of the Holy Sepulchre in Bridge Street
is one of the four ancient round churches in England. Its supposed date
is 1120-1140, but although it is doubtless to be associated with the
Knights Templars, the circumstances of its foundation are not known.
The chancel is practically a modern reconstruction, and an extensive
restoration, which has been adversely criticized, was applied by the
Cambridge Camden Society to the whole fabric in 1841. At several of the
villages neighbouring or suburban to Cambridge there are churches of
interest, as at Chesterton, Trumpington, Grantchester (where the name
indicates a Roman station, borne out by the discovery of remains), Fen
Ditton and Barnwell, near which is the Norman Sturbridge chapel. In
Cambridge itself there is a Norman house, much altered, which by a
tradition of unknown origin bears the name of the School of Pythagoras.

University constitution and administration.

The university is a corporate body, including all the colleges. These,
however, are also corporations in themselves, and have their own
statutes, but they are further subject to the paramount laws of the
universi