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Join us Royal Pew Discover the Chapel Royal Sunday services More than 400 people worship From Tudor times the King and Hampton Court 8.30am regularly in the Chapel Royal, Queen used to worship in this gallery Holy Communion and many more visit this beautiful overlooking the chapel. and holy place most days of the year. 11am It was originally divided into two You are warmly invited to join them! Choral Eucharist separate rooms, known as Holy Day (First Sunday of the Services take place every day, except month & Holy Days) Closets, until Wren redecorated it when the is away, or when or Choral Matins as it is today for Queen Anne. the palace is closed. Today, daily services are said in the 3.30pm If you have a specific need that you former Queen’s Holy Day Closet on Choral would like us to pray for, you are the south side. Daily services welcome to fill out one of the cards Did you know... 8am by the and we will pray for you. King Henry VIII’s Matins son, Prince Edward, The Chaplain, the Clerk of the Chapel, was baptized in 8.30am the Stewards and State Apartment the Chapel Royal in October 1537. Holy Communion Warders will also be pleased to answer Please check the any questions you may have. noticeboard at the We hope you enjoy your visit. front of the chapel or visit our website Denis Mulliner for more information. of Her Majesty’s Chapel Royal www.chapelroyal.org Deputy Priest in Ordinary

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Sir Christopher Wren offered Queen Anne two designs for the 10 reredos which was to replace the 1 window above the High Altar. Altar Her choice was carved under the direction of Grinling Gibbons. The Altar beneath the red Laudian ‘throw-over’ frontal 9 was designed by Wren. The Altar Cross is the work Ceiling of Sir Edwin Lutyens to match the pair of 17th century 2 The magnificent Tudor candlesticks given to the 10 ceiling was Henry VIII’s chapel by King Charles II. great contribution to the chapel. 4 When King Henry VIII’s 3 (Read more overleaf). third Queen, Jane Seymour, 3 died in 1537, he commanded Organ that her heart be buried 2 beneath the Altar here. 8 The organ is an early Processional cross 18th century instrument built for Queen Anne in 1711. The cross is Ethiopian, The Handel received and was given to the a pension from Queen Anne Chapel Royal in 1969. in that year, and he may have It is made of gilded bronze. �played this organ occasionally.

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8 Memorial The memorial panels Windows honour those who gave their lives in two World Wars and The windows in the upper who had lived or worked in walls are copies, made in 1894, 5 . of the original Tudor windows. The great stained glass window behind the High Altar was destroyed in the 1640s. Beyond the organ on 7 the south side is a trompe 6 6 l’œil painted window from the 1690s, showing the new Fountain Court designed by Wren. 7 6 5 The walls between the upper windows were King James Bible Royal Arms Font painted for Queen Anne with her Royal Cypher First published in 1611, The heraldic arms of The elaborate font used for AR (Anna Regina) and the King James or Authorised Henry VIII and Jane Seymour Baptisms was brought from a her motto Semper Eadem Version was commissioned by are held up by pairs of angels church built by Sir Christopher (Always the Same), King James 1 at the Hampton on either side of the west door. Wren in the City of . which had been used Court Conference in 1604 and Chapel Royal These angels were made for by Queen . is still used in the chapel today. Hampton Court Palace Cardinal Wolsey, but later repainted for the king.