Founded in 1348 by Edmund Gonville and refounded in 1557 by John Caius. Originally Gonville Hall 1348-1351.Sister College – Brasenose College Oxford. Men and women – undergraduates 500 postgraduates 250. Gonville and Caius was founded in 1348 as Gonville Hall, by the somewhat mysterious Edmund Gonville, rector of Terrington St Clements, from the Norfolk plains. There must be more to Edmund than the records show, for it is unlikely that a humble rector could have established a college at Cambridge. There has been speculation that he was also a successful businessman with powerful connections, notably with William Bateman, the Bishop of Norwich. The good bishop was Edmund's executor and discovered that the estate was not really large enough to support the institution, so he took control of it himself. Bishop Bateman had recently established Trinity Hall in Cambridge and he moved Gonville (from Free School Lane) to neighboring land, renaming it "The Hall of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary", ensuring that it was equipped with the required buildings. Properties scattered around CambridgeThe college, one of the richest in Cambridge, is located in the city centre, close to the market square, and is home to 250 postgraduates and 500 undergraduates, a majority of whom are men at around 14%. The ground plan fits into a rough oblong whose sides are not parallel, a feature which appears to have been adopted by later builders with rows not square to each other. Despite the apparent small physical size of the original main site, all students can be accommodated in college-owned property, although this is dispersed throughout Cambridge. The Tudor-style St Michael's Court, designed in 1903 by Aston Webb, lies just across the road (T...... middle of paper ......ce for the Gothic Revival, among the The fashionable Victorian guardians of the college Gonville and Caius approached one of the leading exponents of the Gothic, Alfred Waterhouse, for their next project to design the Natural History Museum in London, as well as the buildings of Girton College, a hybrid. glorious and exaggerated in Gothic and Romanesque style, its ornate gargoyles have been both glorified and reviled. In 1995 the college took the opportunity to lease the Cockerel Building (named after the architect), a beautiful classical Greek building. , just outside the main gate It was originally designed as a museum in 1842. but it is now a library Gonville and Caius have a strong academic record and are considered one of the. Cambridge's most traditional colleges, providing much of the tuition in-house. Independent schools provide 58% of members..