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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Sally Weale Education correspondent

Church court rejects Cambridge college bid to move slave trader memorial

The memorial to Tobias Rustat in the chapel of Jesus College, Cambridge
The memorial to Tobias Rustat in the chapel of Jesus College, Cambridge. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

A Cambridge college has been refused its application to remove a memorial to its 17th-century benefactor Tobias Rustat from the college chapel because of his links to the slave trade.

Jesus College argued that the memorial, in a prominent position on the west wall of the Grade I-listed chapel, should be moved to another site in the college because its presence was having a negative impact on the mission and ministry of the church.

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