St.Stephens Chapel

St. Stephen's Chapel

(St, Stephen's Chapel Common Room)

St, Stephen's Chapel also known as the Royal Chapel is a 13th century palace that was completed in the year 1297 in Westminster (London). King Edward started the rebuild of the chapel to rival his cousin Louis lX's chapel in Paris. Though the building was complete in 1297 many additional details were not finished until later, such as the painted walls and glazed windows were not worked on until 1348-1363, The building served as the England House of Commons "debating chamber" for hundred of years, 157-1834.

The complex is oriented around a few chambers, two of the main chambers connect to a axis that move users from one spot to another in the complex. The Upper Chapel was exclusively for the use of the Royal Family and could only be entered via the royal apartments; the door from the outside led only into the undercroft of the chapel.

Richly (and expensively) decorated, the roof of the Upper Chapel was painted sky-blue and spattered with thousands of gold stars, and below its windows were many painted biblical characters and stories.A fire in 1834 destroyed the body of the building"(    )

Works Cited

Hastings, Maurice. "St Stephen's Chapel." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 3 Dec. 2016.

@UKParliament. "St Stephen's Chapel 1184-1363." UK Parliament. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Dec. 2016.