Chichele 600th Anniversary Located in the attractive Northamptonshire market town of Higham Ferrers,
Chichele College is a rare surviving example of a chantry college.
It was founded in 1422 by the locally born Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury. Such colleges, common in England in the 14th and 15th centuries, were groups of priests who shared a communal life that was less strictly controlled than that of a monastery