The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, universally known as The Round Church, is an Anglican church in the city of Cambridge. It is one of the four medieval round churches still in use in England. The church was built around 1130, its shape being inspired by the rotunda in the church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem. It was built by the Fraternity of the Holy Sepulchre, who were probably a group of Austin canons. It consisted of a round nave and an ambulatory, with a short chancel, probably in the shape of an apse. Initially it was a wayfarers` chapel on the Roman road known as Via Devana this is now Bridge Street. By the middle of the 13thÃÂ century it had become a parish church.
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