The young Henry VI laid the first stone of the King's College of Our Lady and St. Nicholas in Cambridge on Passion Sunday, 1441. From the first, the College's buildings were intended to be a magnificent display of the power of royal patronage and Henry went to great lengths to ensure that King's College Chapel would be without equal in size and beauty.
Henry drew up detailed instructions for the construction of a 'great court' but only the Chapel was ever completed and even that took nearly a century.
A list of the most extraordinary and beautiful buildings in the world must include the Chapel at King's College, Cambridge. It is simply breath-taking. As you enter the Chapel you are immediately shocked by its extraordinary beauty.
http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/chapel/index.html
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