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Jesus College 'shocked' after court rules plaque to slave trade investor must not be removed from chapel
The decision comes after the issue was debated in an ecclesiastical court last month. The plaque is located inside the Chapel of Jesus College, at Cambridge University. The ruling, which has ...
Daily Mail3y
Church court REFUSES bid by Jesus College Cambridge to remove memorial to 17th century benefactor Tobias Rustat over slave trade links as judges say it's a reminder of 'the ...
A Cambridge college's bid to rip out ... ended up before a special ecclesiastical court sitting at Jesus College Chapel. And a judge has ruled against the college, saying the memorial should ...
BBC3y
Jesus College Cambridge not contesting non-removal of slave memorial
Students 'fed untruths about slave trade investor' Church court to rule over slave trader memorial Cambridge college ... the memorial removed from Jesus College Chapel and relocated to a place ...
London Evening Standard3y
Cambridge college ‘let down by Church’ over Rustat judgment
Students and members of a Cambridge ... our Chapel continues to be a serious issue for our increasingly diverse community Sonita Alleyne, Master of Jesus College A consistory (Church) court ...
Daily Mail3y
Ecclesiastical court to rule on whether Jesus College Cambridge can remove memorial to 17th Century benefactor who invested in slave-trading from its chapel after period of ...
An ecclesiastical court will hear a dispute next ... in slave-trading companies can be moved from the chapel of a Cambridge University college. Tobias Rustat, who was a major investor in the ...
BBC3y
Cambridge University: Church court to rule over Tobias Rustat memorial
An ecclesiastical court is to decide if a Cambridge University ... who invested in the Royal African Company, external, is in Jesus College's chapel. The college has asked the Diocese of Ely ...
Cambridge News3y
Cambridge University college says it's not 'cancelling' donor linked to slavery
The fate of the marble memorial to Tobias Rustat, who invested both in Jesus College, Cambridge and slave-trading companies during the 17th century, is to be decided by a Church court. The ...
London Evening Standard3y
Cambridge college spent £120,000 on Rustat memorial case
A Cambridge college spent £120,000 attempting to remove a memorial linked to the slave trade from its chapel. Jesus College fought the Church of England in a consistory court case in February to ...
Church Times3y
Jesus Christ forgave Tobias Rustat, judge argues, and so must Jesus College
THE consistory court of the diocese of Ely has refused to grant the petition of Jesus College, Cambridge, for a faculty authorising ... (1608-94), from the west wall of the Grade I listed college ...
The Independent3y
Court to hear dispute over future of memorial to Cambridge college benefactor
An ecclesiastical court is to hear a dispute over ... in slave-trading companies can be moved from the chapel of a Cambridge University college. Tobias Rustat, who invested in the Royal African ...
Bournemouth Daily Echo3y
Cambridge college ‘let down by Church’ over Rustat judgment
Jesus College at the University of Cambridge, where the memorial to Tobias Rustat is located(Joe Giddens/PA) The court case emphasised ... of the memorial in our Chapel continues to be a serious ...