Warm hands, warm heart
In 1620, Dr Robert Chaloner a Canon of Windsor, wrote his last will and testament. To the Dean and to his fellow Canons, he granted 'to each a paire of gloves as a token of my love.'
Volunteers needed in the St George’s Chapter Library
Volunteers are wanted for a project in the Chapter Library. A rare opportunity to discover the collection while preserving it for future generations!
New resources released online
We are very pleased to announce that a treasure trove of material about the history of St George’s Chapel has recently been made available online. Two very important sequences of publications have been digitised and posted to our website so ...
Degradation of a Garter Knight
As the spiritual home of the Order of the Garter, St George’s Chapel has witnessed many occasions of celebration and thanksgiving for the extraordinary individuals who have been members of the Order in the 670 years since its foundation. Less ...
‘Meeting a man through his music’ – Sidney Campbell
Last year I became acquainted with Dr Sidney Scholfield Campbell, lately organist and Director of Music at St George’s Chapel, Windsor. Considering that Dr Campbell died in June 1974, this might seem rather remarkable, but I had taken on the ...
A chest with three locks: celebrating 20 years since the Archives were opened
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 ...
200th Anniversary of Queen Victoria’s birth
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. ...
Russell Thorndike: Happy Days at Windsor
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 ...
A childhood in the Cloisters
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 ...
Mother and Matron, Mrs Wickenden
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 ...