Queen's Chapel

Queen's Chapel
Marlborough Road front
51°30′18″N 0°08′13″W / 51.50500°N 0.13694°W / 51.50500; -0.13694Coordinates: 51°30′18″N 0°08′13″W / 51.50500°N 0.13694°W / 51.50500; -0.13694
Location	London
Country	United Kingdom
Denomination	Church of England
Architecture
Architect(s)	Inigo Jones
Years built	1623–1625

The Queen's Chapel is a chapel in central London, England, that was designed by Inigo Jones and built between 1623 and 1625 as an external adjunct to St. James's Palace for the Roman Catholic queen Henrietta Maria. It is one of the facilities of the British monarch's personal religious establishment, the Chapel Royal, and should not be confused with the 1540 building known as the Chapel Royal within the palace and just across Marlborough road.

History

It was built as a Roman Catholic chapel at a time when the construction of Catholic churches was prohibited in England, and was used by Charles I's Catholic queen Henrietta Maria. From the 1690s it was used by Continental Protestant courtiers. It was built as an integral part of St James's Palace, but when the adjacent private apartments burned down in 1809 they were not replaced and in 1856-57 Marlborough Road was built between the palace and the Queen's Chapel. The result is that physically the chapel now appears to be more part of the Marlborough House complex than of St James's Palace. It became a Chapel Royal again in 1938.

Having been taken from the Royal Chapel of All Saints in Windsor Great Park, the body of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother lay at the Queen's Chapel for several days during the preparations for her lying-in-state in Westminster Hall before her ceremonial funeral.^[1]^[2]

Gallery

East and North walls
from Marlborough House grounds
The Queen's Chapel in 1688 after refurnishing by Christopher Wren in 1682-1684
The German Chapel in 1819

Notes

↑ "Gun salutes honour Queen Mother". The Guardian. Retrieved July 21, 2014.
↑ "Queen Mother's coffin arrives at St James's Palace". The Daily Mail. Retrieved July 21, 2014.

References

Bradley, Simon (2001), "The Queen's Chapel in the Twentieth Century", Architectural History, 44: 293–302, JSTOR 1568758, doi:10.2307/1568758
The Buildings of England London 6: Westminster (2003) pages 587-88.
"The Queen's Chapel, St James's Palace". Retrieved 2008-10-13.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Queen's Chapel, St James' Palace.

Chapels Royal
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United Kingdom	Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace Queen's Chapel, St. James's Palace St John's Chapel, London St. Peter ad Vincula, London Savoy Chapel, London St Katherine-upon-the-Hoe, Plymouth
Former	Chapel Royal, Brighton Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle

Churches in the City of Westminster
Ancient parish churches (pre-1800)	St Anne's, Soho St Clement Danes St George's, Hanover Square St James's Church, Piccadilly St John the Evangelist, Westminster St. Margaret's, Westminster St Martin-in-the-Fields St Marylebone Parish Church St Mary le Strand St Paul's, Covent Garden
Anglican daughter churches	All Saints, Margaret Street All Souls, Langham Place Annunciation, Marble Arch Grosvenor Chapel, Mayfair Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks Holy Trinity, Marylebone Holy Trinity, South Kensington St Augustine's, Kilburn St Cyprian's, Marylebone St Gabriel's, Pimlico St James, Paddington St James the Less, Pimlico St John's Wood Church St Mary, Marylebone St Mary on Paddington Green St Mary Magdalene, Paddington St Matthew's, Bayswater St Matthew's Church, Westminster St Paul's, Knightsbridge St Peter, Vere Street St Peter's, Victoria St Saviour's, Pimlico
Royal Peculiars	Henry VII Chapel Queen's Chapel, St James Savoy Chapel St Mary Undercroft Westminster Abbey
Other denominations	Church of our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory, Westminster Crown Court Church, Covent Garden Dormition Cathedral Enon Chapel French Protestant Church of London, Soho Hinde Street Methodist Church Immaculate Conception, Farm Street Notre Dame de France One Mayfair Church Regent Hall, Oxford Street St Charles Borromeo Church, Westminster St James's, Spanish Place St John's Wood Road Baptist Church St Patrick's, Soho St Sophia's Cathedral, Bayswater Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Family in Exile, Mayfair Ulrika Eleonora West London Methodist Mission West Street Chapel, Westminster Westminster Cathedral Methodist Central Hall Westminster Chapel, Victoria

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