Sonita Alleyne says church ‘is meant to love us all’ after decision on Tobias Rustat memorial

The master of a Cambridge University college at the centre of a dispute over a memorial to a benefactor who was involved in the slave trade has described a recent judgment by a church court that it should remain in the college chapel as “astonishing”.

Jesus College applied to the Diocese of Ely to remove the memorial to its 17th-century benefactor, Tobias Rustat, whose links with slavery are universally accepted, and put it on display in another site in the college. They argued that its presence was having a negative impact on the mission and ministry of the church.

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