In King's College Chapel, you'd get to see English Gothic architecture. King's College Chapel is the chapel at King's College in the University of Cambridge. Built in phases by a succession of kings of England from 1446 to 1515, the chapel boasts of fine medieval stained glass windows and between 1512 and 1515, architect and master mason John Wastell constructed the world's largest fan vault here. At the altar, there is a painting,The Adoration of the Magi. Installed in 1968, this is actually a 1634 painting by Rubens who painted it for the Convent of the White Nuns at Louvain in Belgium. In 1959, the painting was bought by a property millionaire Alfred Ernest Allnatt for a record price of £250,000 and he later made a gift of it to King's College. That alone perhaps makes it worthwhile to pay a fee just to enter the chapel.
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