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The minutes and accounts of the Choir School Committee. From 1926 to 1954, the Committee was entitled the Choir School Committee. From 1954 onward, it was known as the St John’s College School Committee.

Charters, accounts, deeds and other documents related to the creation and re-foundation of Christ's College. Christ's College was founded by William Byngham in 1437 as God's House. In 1505, the College was granted a new royal charter, was given a substantial endowment by Lady Margaret Beaufort, and changed its name to Christ's College.

Circuit lists of electric lights and electrical installation completed by Rashleigh Phipps. The volumes are mostly duplicates of each other but the second volume has details of Chapel Court.

Report from the Classics Lecturers' Committee on the vacancy of certain lectureships in Classics, also includes a letter to the Master concerning the committee's report. Also includes a report from the Classics Lecturers on the annual classics examination.

Negatives, transparencies and prints of the interior, exterior and various features of the Chapel including floor tiles, the Chapel screen, the stained glass windows, furniture and fittings, items from the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments photographic records, the Chapel viewed from First Court, Gargoyles and Statues, the Chapel Tower, the Chapel after restoration, views of Cambridge from the Chapel, and George Gilbert Scott's plans of the west elevation of the Chapel.

Photographs and negatives of the College Gardens and Grounds.

Audio recordings of College public lectures: Hinsley, Linacre, and Penrose

Mounted prints, negatives,slides, 18 lantern slides and a set of 16 glass negatives of the College silver collection and benefactions. Includes prints of individual items and details of decoration.

1923-1959 and 2022
Programmes for plays performed at St. John's College, including productions by the Cambridge Arts Theatre Trust, the Footlights Dramatic Club, and St. John's College School; also includes poster for 'Dante's Virgil: the Tragedy of a More-than-Father', scenes from Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio, directed by Patrick Boyde, 2022

Also includes programmes of productions staged at other locations within Cambridge, including a cycle of mystery plays, performed by the Cambridge Christian Drama Group; "The Last Chronicle of Blaydencroft, or Why go to the Zoo?" by the Young Writers' Group; and Ben Jonson's "Volpone", by the Marlowe Dramatic Society

Slides and prints of buildings, streets and sites in Cambridge which the College owns or has owned in the past, including the Bird Bolt Hotel, Regent St, St Andrew's St, Cockroft Place, Castle Hill, Mount Pleasant, Trumpington St, Storey's Way, Beaufort Place, King's Street, Thompson's Lane and Free School Lane.

Prints and negatives of the College's present and former estates outside the City of Cambridge, including property in Bedfordshire, Berkshire and Surrey, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, London, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Rutland, Suffolk, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire, Humberside and North Yorkshire, and various Northern Estates.

These photographs are typically of farmhouses, cottages, agricultural buildings, farm yards, crop fields, oast houses, livestock, tenants and so forth.

Includes copies of the Johnian News, a termly glossy magazine produced by the College's Development Office; a copy of the 2012-2013 College Calendar; copies of the staff newsletter, View from the Bridge; and the first issue of Green News, a newsletter produced by the College Environmental Committee; Choir Association magazines.

Report of the College Reading room Committee. The committee was appointed to consider the desirability of establishing a College Reading Room. Also includes correspondence related to the charges involved for using the reading room.

Includes programmes for recitals of music and poetry, including performances by the London String Trio, the Lady Margaret Singers, the Cantilena Singers, and members of St. John's College. Includes poster for recital by Aquila, St John's all female a capella choir, 14 March 2023.

Also includes copies of programmes for recitals given as part of the 1951 Festival of Britain, and the "Pageant for the Coronation Year", in honour of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.

Includes programmes for the following College revues:

"Alice in Stat. Pup.: A Whimsey" (sic.) [1st March 1935]

"Table-Top II" [1st March 1939]. Performed by the St. John's College Gadflies

"No John's No" [undated: c. 1940s]

"Here's To The Third Time" [13th-15th June 1949]

"You've Had It" [June 1950]. Duplicate copies, one of which contains a loose-leaf list of corrigenda

"May Fever" [1952]

"Saint John's College Revue" [November 1958].

3 programmes for "The Poppy Day Revue" [1958-1960] along with correspondence and newspaper cuttings about the revue

"Footlights Smoking Concert" programme [16 Feb. 1961]

Series of photographs of College staff.

Includes: statutes and copies of statutes of St John's College; manuscript and printed; some volumes include letters, decrees and statutes of Cambridge University. Also includes, notices, correspondence and draft statutes.

Report considering the provision of College teaching and supervision.