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The Savoy Chapel, or the Queen's Chapel of the Savoy, is a church dedicated to St John the Baptist, located just south of the Strand, London, next to the Savoy Hotel. Originally founded in the Middle Ages as part of the main church of the Savoy Palace (later the Savoy Hospital), the ancient hospital had fallen into ruin by the 19th century and only the chapel survived the demolition enabling construction of an approach road at the north of Waterloo Bridge. The chapel remains governed by the Duchy of Lancaster and as such is a royal peculiar, not being under the jurisdiction of a bishop, but under that of the reigning monarch. It is designated as a Grade II * listed building.〔(www.english-heritage.org.uk )〕 ==History== The original chapel was founded as part of Peter of Savoy's palace which was destroyed during the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. The present chapel building commenced in the 1490s (being completed in 1512) by Henry VII as a side chapel off the Savoy Hospital's long nave (the nave was secular rather than sacred, held 100 beds and was demolished in the 19th century). The Savoy Chapel has hosted various other congregations, most notably that of St Mary-le-Strand whilst it had no church building of its own (1549–1714). Also the German Lutheran congregation of Westminster (now at Sandwich Street and Thanet Street, near St Pancras〔(Lutheran.org )〕) was granted royal permission to worship in the chapel when it separated from Holy Trinity (the City of London Lutheran congregation now at St Mary-at-Hill).〔http://www.stanneslutheranchurch.org.uk〕 The new congregation's first pastor, Irenaeus Crusius (previously an associate at Holy Trinity), dedicated the chapel on the 19th Sunday after Trinity 1694 as the ''Marienkirche'' or the German Church of St Mary-le-Savoy. An Anglican place of worship, the chapel was noted in the 18th and 19th centuries as a place where marriages without banns might occur outside of the usual parameters of ecclesiastical law of that time.〔(Newgate Records )〕 It was referred to in Evelyn Waugh's ''Brideshead Revisited'' as "the place where divorced couples got married in those days—a poky little place".〔("Brideshead Revisited" )〕 In 1753, Archibald Cameron of Lochiel, the last Jacobite leader to be executed for treason, was buried there. In 1939, it was announced by the office of the Duchy of Lancaster that the Savoy Chapel would be known as The King's Chapel of the Savoy. Many of the chapel's stained glass windows were destroyed in the London Blitz during World War II. However, a triptych stained glass memorial window survives which depicts a procession of angelic musicians. It is dedicated to the memory of Richard D'Oyly Carte (who was married at the chapel in 1888) and was unveiled by Sir Henry Irving in 1902; after their respective deaths, the names of Rupert D'Oyly Carte〔(www.doylycarte.org.uk )〕 and Dame Bridget D'Oyly Carte were added.〔Goodman, Andrew. ''Gilbert and Sullivan's London'' (1988; 2000) Faber & Faber ISBN 0-571-20016-8〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Savoy Chapel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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