John Bancroft (bishop)

The Front Quad of the college was rebuilt in stages from 1610, replacing the original medieval buildings, only to be completed much later in 1677.

Bancroft had high church views, and was a friend of Archbishop William Laud.

The Puritan William Prynne (in an attack on Laud) wrote that Bancroft was a "corrupt, unpreaching, popish prelate".

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