The 18 June 2019 marks the twentieth anniversary of the official opening by Her Majesty The Queen of the Vicars’ Hall Undercroft as the new home for the archival and rare book collections belonging to the Dean and Canons of ...
This year is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Queen Victoria, born Alexandrina Victoria at Kensington Palace in London on 24 May 1819. Her husband Prince Albert was born later that same year in Coburg, Germany on 26 August. ...
The actor and writer Russell Thorndike proudly believed he could rewrite most of Shakespeare’s texts from memory. This, he felt, might be useful should all copies of the Bard’s works be consumed in a fire. Bardic memory feats apart, he ...
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 ...