The recently mounted Archives exhibition in the south quire aisle – A Collegiate Community: the people of St George’s Chapel features Minor Canon Edmund Fellowes as one of its key characters. Among the items on display in the exhibition is ...
To commemorate International Women’s Day and Mothering Sunday this month, our March blog features one of the many women who has helped to care for the chorister boys at St George’s Chapel. Mrs Wickenden was Matron from the late 1850s ...
A small chapel, built during the 1490s, is annexed to the west end of the south quire aisle of St George’s Chapel. It is known as the Oliver King Chapel. But where is its founder, Bishop Oliver King? This simple ...
Between 1227 and 1230 three towers were built along the western Castle wall at the direction of William de Milleriis for the total cost of £432 14s 4d. Their completion marked the entire replacement of the wooden defences of the ...
In 1625, the College required: 'twoe fatt bores for the hospitality of the Dean and Canons … at the feast of the birth of our Lord God every yeare'
Within weeks of the declaration of the First World War on 4 August 1914, the Lay Clerks of St George’s Chapel began to sign up for Military Service. A Chapter minute reveals that full pay was granted to the first ...
Though he had been shy during his years at St George’s School, Henry ‘Harry’ Stephen Spurling was later described as “a man of the best sort, with firm principles and unalterable desire to do his utmost, no matter what it ...
Harold Edward Leys Cox was a silk merchant before the War. St George’s School Magazines report that in Midsummer 1909, Cox was “in business just off Oxford Street, and is a very keen territorial Officer.” Harold and his brother, former ...
Captain Charles Eustace Fishbourne served in the Royal Engineers during the First World War. His contemporaries would have recognised him by his genial nickname, “Fishey”, and they would have gladly told you about his love of reading and all about ...
Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie of York married Jack Brooksbank on Friday, 12 October 2018. The ceremony took place in St George’s Chapel and the Dean of Windsor officiated and gave an Address. Brooksbank is the UK ambassador for George ...