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Bridge of Sighs (Cambridge)
The
Bridge of Sighs in
Cambridge is a
covered bridge at
St John's College,
Cambridge University. It was built in 1831 and crosses the
River Cam between the college's Third Court and New Court. The
architect was
Henry Hutchinson.
[1][2]
It is named after the
Bridge of Sighs in
Venice,
[3] although they have little architecturally in common beyond the fact that they are both covered. The bridge, a
Grade I listed building,
[2] is one of Cambridge's main tourist attractions and
Queen Victoria is said to have loved it more than any other spot in the city.
[4]
A common myth states that it was the students who named this bridge "bridge of sighs," as the context of its existing within the college grounds means that the "sighs" are those of pre-exam students. This belief probably has much to do with the function of the bridge—linking two quadrangles of
St John's College together in a covered path, as opposed to Kitchen Bridge, which is an open-air bridge. Students are rumoured for their sighs on proceeding from their quarters on the Backs to the tutors' offices in the main college quadrangle.
On two separate occasions, students have pulled the prank of dangling a car under the bridge. In the first incident (in June 1963), a 1928
Austin 7 was punted down the river using four
punts that had been lashed together, then hoisted up under the bridge using ropes.
[5] The second incident (in 1968) a
Bond or
Reliant Regal three-wheeler car was dangled under the bridge.
[citation needed] In neither case was the bridge damaged.
The bridge was apparently a favourite spot of former
Singaporean Prime Minister
Lee Kuan Yew, having photos taken there when he was a student, in 1974 and 2000
