News

News Announcements

New Dean of Windsor Installed

At a Service attended by Their Majesties The King and Queen on Thursday 23 November the Right Reverend Christopher Cocksworth was installed as the 65th Dean of Windsor. Towards the start of the Service the Chapter Clerk informed the College ...

Read more

Christmas 2023

For information on Christmas Services 2023 please click here. Christmas lights in Windsor were switched on in mid-November. The display includes projections onto Garter Tower at the western end of Windsor Castle. The projections include various details from the stained ...

Read more

Announcement - The next Dean of Windsor

The following announcement was made at 10am on Tuesday 20 June 2023 “The King has approved that The Right Reverend Dr Christopher Cocksworth, Bishop of Coventry, be appointed to the Deanery of The King’s Free Chapel of St George, Windsor ...

Read more

Coronation Weekend - Bells & Choristers

Joyful music filled St George’s Chapel over the course of Services on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 May. Music sang and played included William Drakett’s Te Deum and Jubilate,  William Walton’s ‘Orb & Sceptre’, William Harris’ anthem based on Psalm ...

Read more

The National Scout Service

The annual National Scout Service will take place in St George’s Chapel on Sunday 23 April.  The Service is preceded by a parade in the Quadrangle of Windsor Castle. After the Service The Queen’s Scouts and The King’s Scouts will ...

Read more

Details of Holy Week and Easter Services

For details of Holy Week and Easter Services Click here. Photograph © Doug Harding. Wooden crucifix, carved by Don Potter, in front of the Organ.

Presentation of a Loyal Address to The King

The privileged bodies of the United Kingdom are those institutions and corporations which enjoy the historic right to present a loyal address to the Sovereign in person.  In modern times this right is exercised on significant occasions in the life of the ...

Read more

Chorister Auditions

Applications are now open for children in Year 3 to apply to become a Chorister in the Choir of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. The first round of auditions will take place on Saturday 25 February. Choristers usually join the ...

Read more

Christmas at St George's Chapel 2022

For The King’s Christmas Broadcast, His Majesty King Charles III recorded his message from the Quire of St George’s Chapel The photograph shows the Choir of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle about to be filmed in the Nave of the ...

Read more

Funeral and Committal Service links

The State Funeral in Westminster Abbey and The Committal Service at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle For information on the days events and processions, please visit Royal.uk here. See the BBC coverage on IPlayer here. Committal Order of Service The ...

Read more

The Queen's Platinum Jubilee 2022

Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee will be particularly marked at St George’s Chapel in the following ways: From Thursday 2 June until Sunday 5 June the Regimental and Corps flags of the Military Knights of Windsor fly from their ...

Read more

Royal Maundy Service 2022

  The Royal Maundy Service was held in St George’s Chapel on Thursday 14 April.  This year The Prince of Wales distributed the Maundy money on behalf of Her Majesty The Queen to 96 women and 96 men from across ...

Read more

The Dean of Windsor's Address at Westminster Abbey

The Dean of Windsor’s Address at a Service of Thanksgiving for his Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey on Tuesday 29 March 2022. “There’s no discouragement / shall make him once relent / his first ...

Read more

The Choir of St George’s Chapel

The Dean and Canons of St George’s Chapel Windsor Castle are pleased to announce that, by September 2023, girls and boys will be singing side by side as choristers in our renowned Chapel Choir. This follows the appointment of our ...

Read more

A Sequence of Music and Readings for Christmas

Available to watch now:  Over the course of 2020 and 2021, we have not been able to hold our annual Festivo concerts. We know how these events help shape the Festive season for many, and we very much hope that ...

Read more

600th anniversary of the birth of King Henry VI

600th anniversary of the birth of King Henry VI December 2021 marks the 600th anniversary of the birth of King Henry VI in Windsor Castle. The son of King Henry V he came to the throne aged just 9 months ...

Read more

BBC Radio Broadcasts from St George's Chapel

Two Services broadcast on Sunday 6 June (BBC Radio 4) and Wednesday 9 June (BBC Radio 3) were recorded in St George’s Chapel last month. Both Services touch lightly on the fact that the week marks the centenary of the ...

Read more

Reopening May 2021

INFORMATION FOR THE PERIOD MONDAY 17 MAY 2021 to TUESDAY 15 JUNE 2021 We are delighted to welcome you back and to attend a Service in St George’s Chapel as follows: Monday 17 May             – Evensong at 5.15pm open ...

Read more

The Duke of Edinburgh 1921 – 2021

The Duke of Edinburgh and the College of St George The Duke of Edinburgh was closely involved with the life of St George’s. His Royal Highness attended Mattins at the Chapel on Easter Day and an annual service of thanksgiving ...

Read more

Looking Back and Looking Forward…..

At this time in 2021 it is no surprise that we might look back on past Services. In recent years, 2016, 2018 and 2019, St George’s Chapel was the venue for the Royal Maundy Service.  This year sadly there is ...

Read more

Become a Chorister at St George's Chapel

Do you know a child currently in Year 3 at school, who enjoys singing and shows an interest and ability in music? If so, have you ever thought about the prospect of him becoming a chorister? In this video, filmed ...

Read more

Virtual Chorister Open Morning

Do you have a son aged 6-8 (in Years 2-3) who enjoys singing and shows an interest and ability in music? If so, have you ever thought about the prospect of him becoming a chorister? On Saturday 23 January, we ...

Read more

Christmas Music at St George’s Chapel

Enjoy listening to some Choral and Organ music from St George’s Chapel (all recorded before the area was placed in tier three/four). From Wednesday 23rd December you can watch Allegro (from Symphonie VI) by Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937) being played by ...

Read more

Christmas Illuminations

Images projected onto Garter Tower as part of the town of Windsor’s Christmas decorations are taken, in the main, from stained glass and architectural details in St George’s Chapel together with images from books and manuscripts in the Chapel’s library ...

Read more

Busy behind the scenes.

Re-wiring St George’s Chapel As we enter into another period of closure due to a second full lockdown, we’d like to tell you about some things that have been happening behind the scenes in St George’s Chapel. Early in 2020 ...

Read more

Reopening to Worshippers and Visitors

INFORMATION FOR THE PERIOD 3 to 22 DECEMBER 2020 We are delighted to welcome you back and to attend a Service in St George’s Chapel (Thursday 3 December to Tuesday 22 December 2020) as follows: Sundays – 8.30am Holy Communion; 10.45am ...

Read more

World War II at St George’s Chapel

Removal of the West Window stained glass, the placement of water tanks for firefighting on Chapter grass and the continuation of payment to Lay Clerks who left Windsor to join the Armed Services were just some of the decisions made ...

Read more

Stained Glass Conservation

The Edward IV Chantry Chapel is at the north east corner of St George’s Chapel. It was constructed as two upper chambers in accordance with the will of King Edward IV in the 15th century. The stained glass in the ...

Read more

Windsor Festival: 50th anniversary year

2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the Windsor Festival. Founded by Yehudi Menuhin with the then Dean of Windsor, Robin Woods, as Chairman of the Festival, some of the very first concerts took place in St George’s Chapel.  The opening ...

Read more

Exhibition - the people of St George's

From Tuesday 2 April 2019 there will be a new display from the Chapel’s Archives in the South Quire Aisle. In 1348 King Edward III established St George's as "a College of Canons, Presbyters, Clerks and Knights, who in the same Chapel shall evermore wait upon the Lord's service."

Read more

Royal Maundy Service 2019

The Royal Maundy Service was held in St George’s Chapel on 18 April. Royal Maundy was previously held in St George’s in 2016, the year of The Queen’s 90th birthday, and in 2018. Men and women from all over the country ...

Read more

Digital Archives Catalogue

A full catalogue of the records held in St George’s Chapel Archives is now available and searchable online: http://www.calmview.eu/stgeorges/ This includes accounts and deeds dating from as early as the 12th century; maps, plans and photographs; records relating to the ...

Read more

600 Years of Royal Music

: 600 Years of Royal Music, an exhibition of items from the Archives and Chapter Library to celebrate the musical history of St George’s Chapel, is now on display in the south quire aisle. The exhibition includes 14th Century manuscript music and an edition of the first musical setting of the Book of Common Prayer.

Read more

Royal Maundy 2018

The Royal Maundy Service will be held in St George’s Chapel this year.  Royal Maundy was previously held in St George’s in 2016, the year of The Queen’s 90th birthday. On that occasion 90 women and 90 men from all ...

Read more

Royal Weddings

The Dean & Canons of Windsor and all at St George’s wish Prince Henry of Wales & Ms Meghan Markle and Princess Eugenie of York & Mr Jack Brooksbank every happiness.

Read more

Bell Ringing in 2018

The bells of St George’s Chapel in the Curfew Tower will ring out on several occasions in 2018

Read more

Stone: Old and New

The stone craftsmanship at St George’s Chapel takes many forms, from soaring perpendicular architecture to intricate carvings both old and new. 

Read more

Royal Wedding

The Dean & Canons of Windsor and all at St George’s wish Prince Henry of Wales and Ms Meghan Markle every happiness.  The wedding  will take place in St George’s Chapel on Saturday 19 May 2018.

Read more

‘Knights in Training’ day

There will be a day full of activity on Saturday 2 September. By special permission of The Queen, the hub of this special family festival will be the Castle's Quadrangle.

Read more

The Choristers’ year

A new term for the boys, known as Choristers, who sing in St George’s Chapel choir begins in early September.  Whilst this is the start of a new academic year there are plenty of memories from previous months that can still be enjoyed.

Read more

Anniversary links medieval craft and modern technology

150 years ago, in 1867, Andrew Ellicott Douglass was born in Windsor - that is to say Windsor Vermont USA not Windsor England. He later became the founder of the discipline of dendrochronology i.e. the system of dating wood from growth ring comparison.

Read more

BBC Songs of Praise

Presenter Richard Taylor is seen with a BBC film crew following some filming in and around St George’s Chapel for a BBC Songs of Praise programme to be broadcast on Sunday 17 April.

Read more

Royal Maundy 2016

The Royal Maundy service takes place on Thursday in Holy Week each year.  In 2016 the service took place at St George’s Chapel on 24 March. The giving of alms and the washing of feet on the Thursday of Holy ...

Read more

Royal Maundy 2016

The Queen, accompanied by The Duke of Edinburgh, will attend a Service in St George’s Chapel on 24 March 2016 at which Her Majesty will distribute the Royal Maundy. Recipients will come to St George’s from across the country.  The ...

Read more

Two new publications

On 24 November two publications were launched at St George’s both in a way marking the 50th anniversary of the current organ in the Chapel.  ‘The Organs in Windsor Castle – their History and Development’ is a new book written by Roger ...

Read more

New Canon of Windsor

The Reverend Dr Mark Powell and his wife, Helen, will move from Derbyshire to Windsor in the New Year.  Mark Powell was born in Cheltenham in 1957, went to King’s School in Worcester and read chemistry at Bath University. He ...

Read more

Grotesque project shortlisted for award

St George’s Chapel grotesque programme has been shortlisted for the King of Prussia Medal – an award for church architecture organised by the National Church Trust. The grotesque sculptures at St George’s Chapel, created by students at the City & ...

Read more

The Longest Reign

Evensong on Wednesday 9 September will mark and celebrate the length of The Queen’s reign. Music will include Byrd’s anthem O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth. The Dean of Windsor, The Right Reverend David Conner, will give an address. The service, which ...

Read more

Council of Friends of Cathedral Music grant received

The Council of Friends of Cathedral Music has approved a choral endowment grant for the music at St George’s of £25,000. The cheque was presented in the Dean’s Cloister after Evensong on 28 June. The Dean and Canons of Windsor ...

Read more

New post for Canon James Woodward

The Trustees of Sarum College are delighted to announce the appointment of The Reverend Canon Dr James Woodward as Principal of Sarum College. Canon Woodward, currently Canon Steward, will take up the post on 1 October. Sarum College is an ecumenical ...

Read more

New Monograph

In 1937 a small committee was formed within the College to launch a series of historical monographs on St George’s Chapel. The first volume in the series, The Knights of the Garter, 1348-1939, compiled by Minor Canon E. H. Fellowes, a ...

Read more

Bells in Remembrance

The eight bells of the Curfew Tower were rung half-muffled on Remembrance Day morning.  A leather pad (a muffle) was placed over one side of each bell’s clapper. To read more about the bells please click here: Listen to the Bells of St ...

Read more

New book about King Charles I

A prologue by Archivist and Chapter Librarian, Dr Clare Rider, begins this new book (King Charles 1: his burial and relics at St George’s Chapel) which brings together out of print articles by the Reverend Edmund Fellowes (first published in ...

Read more

700th Anniversary

The Choristers will sing at a 700th anniversary service in the Oxford Diocese on Friday 4 July.  The Schorne Team ministry includes twelve churches in the Aylesbury Vale. It is named after John Schorne (died 1314) who was rector of North ...

Read more

New Queen's Scouts

Many hundreds of new Queen’s Scouts gathered in Windsor on Sunday 27 April. The day culminated in a Service in St George’s Chapel, attended by The Duke of Kent, during which those present renewed their Scout Promise. After the Service ...

Read more

Recital at St George's

Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh attended an organ recital in St George’s Chapel on Wednesday afternoon.  The event celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Royal College of Organists. A recital was given by ...

Read more

Magna Carta Anniversary

459 children from 31 mainly local schools submitted work to compete for a place in a Magna Carta anniversary exhibition. Pupils up to year 4 drew their own shields whilst learning a little about heraldry; pupils from year 5 and ...

Read more

Lunchtime Recitals

Two groups will give informal lunchtime recitals in St George’s Chapel this week.  On Tuesday 11 March we welcome the Downs School from Bristol and on Thursday 13 March the Amarillo Girls Choir from the USA.  Both recitals begin at ...

Read more

Windsor Spring Festival 2014

Public booking for the Windsor Spring Festival opens on Tuesday 18 February. Three events will take place in St George’s Chapel. Monday 17 March King Edward IV and his ‘White Queen’, Elizabeth Woodville, are buried in St George’s Chapel.  King ...

Read more

Forty two potential choristers

42 boys from 29 schools travelled to St George’s to participate in ‘Chorister For A Day’ on 8 February. Part of the programme of chorister recruitment, this exciting event saw an unprecedented number of applicants from across the Home Counties ...

Read more

Royal cousins at war

A BBC documentary entitled “Royal Cousins at War” will be shown on BBC 2 this week. It explores how Europe’s Royal Relatives, despite ties of blood and marriage, ended up at war with each other. Part one is on Wednesday ...

Read more

BBC1 - The One Show

The One Show on BBC1 tonight (4 December) will include a short piece on gargoyles and grotesques from around the country. Some photographs of St George’s new grotesques may well be included. The piece will be presented by Gyles Brandreth. ...

Read more

500th anniversary

Sunday 27 October is the 500th anniversary of the death of Lord Roos. George Manners, 11th Lord Roos died in 1513 and is buried alongside his wife Anne (who died thirteen years later) in a chantry chapel on the north side of ...

Read more

National Award

The Canons’ Cloister refurbishment project was awarded ‘Highly Commended’ in the conservation category of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors’  2013 National Awards on Friday. Of the 11 Regional Winners in the conservation category earlier this year, only the Canons’ ...

Read more

Choir concert on the radio

The combined choirs of St George’s Chapel, Hampton Court Palace, The Queen’s Chapel of the Savoy and the Gentlemen and Children of the Chapel Royal gave a resounding Coronation Anniversary concert in St George’s Chapel on 25 September.  If you ...

Read more

New Henry VIII on-line interactive resource

Children (and interested adults) will enjoy playing a new game which invites you to find out more about King Henry VIII and Windsor Castle. There is a section on St George’s Chapel together with a chance to find out the ...

Read more

The Deanery

A large scaffolding is currently being built around the Deanery. As before with the Canons Cloister, the Deanery scaffolding will be sheeted in plastic and will have a corrugated-metal roof to protect the Deanery from the weather whilst comprehensive external ...

Read more

Music on television

Part IV of the BBC 2 series ‘Music & Monarchy’ presented by Dr David Starkey will be shown on Saturday 10 August. “Dr David Starkey’s exploration of how the monarchy shaped the story of British music concludes with the nineteenth ...

Read more

Bells for the Royal Baby

The bells of the Curfew Tower in Windsor Castle will ring out today in celebration of the birth of a son to The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.  They will be rung at 2pm (at the same time as gun ...

Read more

The Real White Queen

A BBC 2 documentary entitled the ‘The Real White Queen and her Rivals’ will begin at 9pm on Wednesday 17 July. Some of the filming for the two part programme was undertaken in St George’s Chapel and in St George’s Archives. ...

Read more

Garter

Garter Day on Monday 17 June is the central day of the three day Solemnity of St George. St George’s Chapel will prepare for the various Services as follows: Friday 14 June Chapel closed to visitors but open to all ...

Read more

BBC2 Tudor Season

A collection of BBC programmes entitled ‘The Tudor Court Season’ begins on Thursday 23 May. Amongst the programmes is one about Thomas Cromwell presented by Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch which was partly filmed in St George’s; it will be shown on BBC 2 ...

Read more

Buildings Award

The Canons’ Cloister refurbishment project won the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors South-East Region Building Conservation Award on 16 May from a shortlist of eleven. The citation stated “The refurbishment project provided a remarkable opportunity for re-discovering further evidence of the ...

Read more

'Country Life' Article

In ‘Country Life’ magazine, published on 15 May, there is an article about the Canons’ Cloister refurbishment. For other information on the project click here to download a copy of the College Companion magazine.

Appointment of Director of Music

The Dean and Canons of Windsor are pleased to announce the appointment of Mr James Vivian as Director of Music from September 2013.  Mr Vivian is currently Director of Music and Organist at The Temple Church in London; he will move to ...

Read more

Chivalry and Betrayal: The Hundred Years War

Tonight at 9pm on BBC4 is the first of a three part series entitled ‘Chivalry & Betrayal – The Hundred Years War’.  Part of the series, particularly the section looking at the formation of The Order of the Garter, was ...

Read more

Boys who love to sing

The photographs show part of last week’s ‘Chorister Open Day’ when potential Choristers (boys of the choir in St George’s Chapel) found out what it might be like to be a pupil at St George’s School and sing in the ...

Read more

Bells ring out to mark anniversary

Yesterday the Curfew Tower bells were rung on the 16th day of the 12th month to mark 400 years since three of the bells were re-cast in 1612.   The bells in the Curfew Tower are rung on major Church Festivals, Patronal Festivals ...

Read more

700th anniversary Service

Evensong on Tuesday 13 November will mark the 700th anniversary of the birth of King Edward III in Windsor Castle. The King was founder of both the Order of the Garter and the College of St George. Music at the ...

Read more

Competition winner

The Assistant Director of Music, Richard Pinel, recently competed in the inaugural Breda International Organ Competition. After three rounds of competition against organists from across the world it is a delight to report that Richard won the overall competition and ...

Read more

New Canon of Windsor Installed

The Reverend Canon Martin Poll was installed as a Canon of Windsor on Monday 1 October; Canon Poll is both the Canon Chaplain and Chaplain to the Great Park. Born in Enfield, Canon Poll attended Edmonton County School and then ...

Read more

King Edward III anniversary exhibition

2012 marks the 700thanniversary of the birth of Edward III at Windsor Castle. Born here on 13 November 1312, the first son of Edward II and Isabella of France, Edward III became King of England at the age of fourteen, ...

Read more

Filming for the Olympics & Paralympics

Television crews from the US company NBC have come to Windsor twice in the last ten days to film footage to give their Olympic broadcasts some feel for the United Kingdom as well as sport. Lester Holt, anchor of the ...

Read more

Olympic Torch Relay

The olympic flame was exchanged between runners in front of St George’s Chapel this afternoon. St George’s School pupils on a Football Tournament holiday awaiting the torches arrival. After the flame had passed by, many visitors to the Castle went ...

Read more

Canadian support

Sunday 1 July is Canada Day. We are very grateful to Canadian benefactors of the College of St George who are supporting the soon to begin works in the Dean’s Cloister. Denese Webb of Paul Webb Roofing together with Ian ...

Read more

New Appointment

It is a pleasure to announce that Her Majesty The Queen has approved the appointment of the Venerable Martin Poll, Principal Anglican Chaplain and Archdeacon for the Royal Navy, to the Canonry in St George’s Chapel and Chaplain to the ...

Read more

Diamond Jubilee service

The main Diamond Jubilee service in St George’s Chapel will be Evensong on Saturday 2 June. All are welcome to attend; no tickets are required. The service begins at 5.15pm. Regular services, to which all are welcome, take place every ...

Read more

Royal filming in St George's Chapel

Over the course of a few days St George’s Chapel will be seen in some very different television programmes: On Thursday 31 May Griff Rhys Jones presents a programme following the Royal progress of Queen Elizabeth I from Windsor Castle ...

Read more

Diamond exhibition

An exhibition to mark The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee has recently opened in the Dean’s Cloister. Open during St George’s Chapel visitor hours (normally Monday to Saturday 10am to 4pm) the exhibition is entitled ‘Our Diamond Queen; The Life and Work of ...

Read more

Canons' Cloister Symposium 2012

Canons’ Cloister – Researching and restoring a fourteenth century architectural gem. For information on a one-day conference to be held in October 2012 click here To download the booking form click here. [PDF no longer available]

Marvellous Metal

A BBC4 series entitled  ‘Handmade in Britain: Metalworks!‘ began on Wednesday 2 May at 9pm. Filming for the third part of the series, ‘The Blacksmith’s Tale‘, included two pieces of extraordinary metal work in St George’s Chapel namely the 13th ...

Read more

Lenten Reflections

Music plays a fundamental part in the life of St George’s Chapel and during Lent, we have been looking a little more closely at the music of Bach. Here we offer a short introduction and reflection on a piece of ...

Read more

Lent

Today, Wednesday 29 February, sees the first of four Lenten Reflections preceded by Compline. If you wish to attend please be seated in the Quire of St George’s Chapel by 7.30pm. After the Service of Compline, Richard Pinel will give ...

Read more

The Dean's Cloister

Scaffolding will shortly go up inside part of the Dean’s Cloister to ensure the structure and its decoration are kept safe when work to the stone and brick walls above the lead roof of the Cloister begins. One photograph shows ...

Read more

Urswick cleaning

Cleaning of the stonework and bosses has begun in the Urswick Chantry in the north west corner of St George’s Chapel. The stone vaulting together with the decoration, some of which is wood or plaster, has at its centre a ...

Read more

Henry VI and Edward IV in exhibition and on screen

A three part series on BBC4 entitled ‘Illuminations; the Private Life of Medieval Kings’ begins at 9pm on Monday 9 January 2012. One piece of the filming for part two took place last September in St George’s Chapel. The photographs show ...

Read more

150th anniversary of the Death of Prince Albert

Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, the Prince Consort died on 14 December 1861. The three daily services on the 150th anniversary of his death will be held in the Albert Memorial Chapel. During the morning a documentary about Prince Albert ...

Read more

BBC Radio Broadcast

Choral Evensong was broadcast live from St George’s Chapel on Wednesday 23rd November. The details of the service were as follows: Introit: One thing have I desired of the Lord (Herbert Whitton Sumsion); Welcome by the Reverend Andrew Zihni (Minor ...

Read more

'Adopt a Boss' launched - November 2011

The ‘Adopt a boss’ scheme was launched on Monday 7 November. Following a welcome from the Dean of Windsor and Carolyn Perry in the Dean’s Cloister those attending the evening split into small groups for a tour of St George’s ...

Read more

Lay Clerk wins composition competition

The Royal School of Church Music’s (RSCM’s) annual Dr Harold Smart Composition Competition has been won by David Manners, a Lay Clerk at St George’s Chapel.  His setting of a text, How shall we sing salvation’s song, by Bishop Timothy Dudley-Smith is ...

Read more

New home for banner of the late Lord Bingham

During their life, the banners, stallplates and crests of Companions of the Order of the Garter are positioned over their stalls in the Quire of St George’s Chapel.  An individual’s banner and crest are taken down after death but the ...

Read more

St George's on television

St George’s Chapel and other parts of the College of St George will be shown on television over the next few days and weeks. The third part of ‘Elegance & Decadence; the Age of the Regency’ will be shown on BBC ...

Read more

Artistic memorial to feature on the BBC

The memorial to Princess Charlotte, the only child of King George IV, will feature in a BBC programme on Regency Art. The three-part series, presented by Dr Lucy Worsley, begins on Monday 29 August on BBC4. Princess Charlotte is buried ...

Read more

Free Lecture - 26 October – Matthew & Christopher Wren

On Wednesday 26 October 2011 Dr John Adamson will give the Bond Memorial Lecture on ‘Sacred Space and Sacred Monarchy in Early Stuart England: the projects of Deans Matthew and Christopher Wren’. The brothers were Deans of Windsor during the reign of ...

Read more

Beryl Dean Panels

2nd August marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Beryl Dean. She died in 2001 but her remarkable work lives on at St George’s Chapel and other places in her embroidery and related work. Between 1969 and 1974 Beryl Dean made ...

Read more

'Cathedral Camps' Scheme

Twelve young people and two leaders spent a week at St George’s Chapel having volunteered as part of the ‘Cathedral Camps’ scheme. During the course of the week they helped the Chapel and Works teams in a variety of tasks ...

Read more

St George’s Organ Scholar competes in the USA

Ben Bloor, Organ Scholar at St George’s Chapel for 2010/2011, has been awarded third place in the American Guild of Organists Regional Competition for Young Organists (AGORCYO). In February 2011, Ben had achieved first place in the European Chapter, which ...

Read more

What’s on in the summer of 2011 at St George’s

Lunchtime recitals Lunchtime recitals, which begin at 1.10pm, will be held in the Nave of St George’s Chapel as follows: 13 July – Cantilon Chamber Choir from Edmonton, Canada. 16 July – John Septimus Roe School from Perth Australia 1 August ...

Read more

Windsor Festival events and St George’s in 2011

The Choir of St George’s Chapel will sing in concert in the Waterloo Chamber on Tuesday 20 September. Also performing at the same concert will be the London Mozart Players. Pieces by Haydn and Mozart will feature during the evening. Running ...

Read more

The King's Free Chapel. The Chapel of the Most Honourable and Noble Order of the Garter. The Chapel of the College of St George.