Church & religious
White Chapel
Cambridge's oldest continuous institution, from whose teaching descends the White Chapel arrangement: every material entering a licensed process is committed by the chapel form, and every condemned material committed again before it is ground.
Cambridge's oldest and principal religious foundation, with a distinctive rite that blesses material, gives thanks after a successful proving and commits refused material before grinding.
Named with it
- Sister Agnes of the White Chapel
Ties
- rite used at White Furnace Row
- its arrangement was adopted wholesale by the Collegium
At the table
The chapter has never approved its rites nor suppressed them. Its committal is said at White Furnace Row before every grinding. Sister Agnes's rule of blessing, then writing, then proving is the foundation of Cambridge's record-keeping; the chapel books record every material committed.