Indulgent behaviour
In November 1349, Pope Clement VI authorised an agreement that anyone who visited St George’s Chapel on the feast days of St George (23 April) or St Edward the Confessor (13 October) would have one year reduced from the time ...
Category: St George’s Chapel
Christmas festivities for choristers
The popular practice of appointing a boys' bishop dates to the thirteenth century. St George's medieval choristers took part and they had special vestments and a throne for the boy appointed.
Let there be light
“There is a feeling of profound regret and dismay among those who know and have known St George’s that what is regarded as a unique feature in the beautiful and historical shrine should be interfered with.” This was the opinion ...
Windsor’s medieval Easters
As Lent draws to a close, we look forward to the celebration of Easter Sunday in St George’s Chapel. Records in the Chapel’s Archives shed light for us on the celebration of this special, holy season hundreds of years ago. ...
‘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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Fred & Alec Naylor, Veterans of the First World War
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 ...
St George at St George’s – a hidden treasure
In 1965 this stained glass panel was discovered behind plaster in No 2, Canon’s Cloister. It depicts an armoured St George standing on a flower strewn mound and spearing the dragon through the mouth. The detail in the panel, which ...