Dean and Canons of Windsor
The Dean and Canons of Windsor are the ecclesiastical body of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.
St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, left, 1848.
The stalls for the Dean and Canons in the chapel
St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is a Royal Peculiar, and the Chapel of the Order of the Garter. St George's Chapel was founded in the 14th century by King Edward III and extensively enlarged in the late 15th century. It is located in the Lower Ward of the castle.
St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
St George's Chapel (left) at Windsor Castle in 1848, showing the absence of the Queen's Beasts on the pinnacles (since replaced). Watercolour by Joseph Nash
The Choir of St George's Chapel, by Charles Wild, from W. H. Pyne's Royal Residences, 1818
The Horseshoe Cloister, built in 1480 and reconstructed in the 19th century