Our longest and shortest Deans
David Conner retired after 25 years, making him the seventh-longest-serving Dean of Windsor. Who were the longest- and shortest-serving?
Tag: Dean of Windsor
A very busy man?
March marks the 500th anniversary of Christopher Urswick’s death. Urswick was appointed a Canon at Windsor in 1492, was installed as Dean in 1496, and resigned his position in 1505. During his time at Windsor, he added a new west ...
The Case of Grossmith and Plumb
On 9 December 1729 two minor canons of Windsor, George Grossmith and Thomas Plumb, were expelled from the College of St George. They had recently raised a complaint against a fellow minor canon, Thomas Bell.
Two fat bores for Christmas
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'
Wine Merchants of Windsor
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 ...
The absent commander
The institution of the Naval Knights of Windsor was founded in 1728 in the will of Samuel Travers, MP for New Windsor. The will stipulated that the seven Naval Knights were to live devout lives, attend daily divine service, and ...
The books of the Brewster bequest
In 1475 the hospital of Saint Anthony in the City of London, together with its lands and properties throughout England, which had earlier come into the possession of the Crown by virtue of the Alien Priories Act 1414, became vested ...
Tales of Christmas Past
Christmas celebrations often feature prominently in people’s recollections of their childhood. This is certainly shown in the memoirs of former choristers, held in St George’s Chapel Archives. Dating from the mid-nineteenth century onwards, these include diaries and letters written during ...
St George at St George’s – carved in alabaster
This depiction of St George appears on the Anson Memorial Font, located in the nave of the Chapel. The font was commissioned by Chapter in 1886 and was installed in the summer of 1887. Frederick Anson was a Canon from ...
Hell hath no fury…
Among the business recorded at the Chapter meeting held by the Dean and Canons of Windsor on 5 March 1912 is a note that in consequence of information received from the police of possible danger from Suffragettes, the Chapel would ...