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College Chapel and Lower Chapel offer boys the opportunity for regular worship in inspiring buildings, with an internationally renowned choir and a busy programme of guest speakers. Eton’s Chapel has a rich history.
Eton College Chapel, seen from Windsor Castle. Eton College Chapel is the main chapel of Eton College, a public school in England. The chapel was planned to be a little over double its actual length, but this plan was never completed owing to the downfall of the founder Henry VI.
Jan 2023. Eton is more than a school, it's a cultural repository of treasures. Among the most stunning is the Eton College Chapel, which was intended to be a place of worship and pilgrimage. The Eton Choir has toured internationally; it is one of the finest choirs in England.
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Eton's first Head Master, William Waynflete, founder of Magdalen College, Oxford and previously headmaster of Winchester College, built the ante-chapel that completed the chapel. The important wall paintings in the chapel and the brick north range of the present School Yard also date from the 1480s; the lower storeys of the cloister, including ...
Eton College Chapel. by Jonathan Evens. Never completed owing to the Wars of the Roses, Eton College Chapel should have been a little over double its current length (a plaque on a building opposite the west end marks the point it should have reached) and, in common with its beginnings, is a space which has seen considerable change over the years.
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