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Near Jesus, Malcolm Street cuts off Jesus Lane to reach King Street, from where it's a short stroll through to Sidney Sussex College (tel 01223/338800), whose sombre, mostly mock-Gothic facade glowers over Sidney Street. Oliver Cromwell studied here and, in 1960, his skull was brought to the college and buried in a secret location in the ante-chapel. Just to the south of Sidney Sussex, on St Andrew's Street, you hit the hustle and bustle of the town's central shopping area, dominated by the Lion Yard shopping centre. This was one of the few town-planning mistakes in the centre of Cambridge, a brutally modern structure that rumbles along Petty Cury , formerly a cobbled curve of leaning half-timbered houses. Aesthetic relief is, however, close at hand, just opposite Lion Yard, in the turreted gateway of Christ's College (tel 01223/334900), which features the coat of arms of the founder, Lady Margaret Beaufort, who also founded St John's. Passing through First Court you come to the Fellows' Building, attributed to Inigo Jones, whose central arch gives access to the Fellows' Garden (Mon-Fri 10am-12pm; free). The poet John Milton is said either to have painted or composed beneath the garden's elderly mulberry tree, though there's no definite proof that he did either; Christ's other famous undergraduate was Charles Darwin, who showed little academic promise and spent most of his time hunting and shooting. If you continue walking through the college, you come to its modern adjunct, Denys Lasdun's concrete pyramidal accommodation block, dubbed "the typewriter".
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