chapels

Now known as McMenamins Chapel Pub, this Italian-inspired building in North Portland was built in 1932 as an architecturally impressive funeral home.

Consecrated in 1449, Rycote Chapel was originally a private chantry built for Richard and Sibil Quatremayne of Rycote. It is now a church.

Constructed in the early 16th century, Christ's College Chapel in Cambridge retains its original timber roof, brass lectern, and some stained glass windows from this period. It was remodeled in the Neoclassical style in 1701-03.

Christ Church Cathedral is a small medieval cathedral that is also the chapel of Christ Church College. It contains the restored shrine of Frideswide (Oxford's patron saint), a spectacular lierne vault in the choir, and 14C stained glass.

Famed for its stained glass, this beautiful 13th-century Gothic chapel was built by King Louis IX as a royal chapel to house important relics of Christ.

Commissioned by Charlemagne in 786, this is the oldest cathedral in Northern Europe. A graceful Gothic choir was added to the Carolingian core in the 15th century. Inside are several major relics and early medieval artworks.

The Italian Chapel is a Catholic chapel created out of two Nissen huts by Italian prisoners in World War II, who had been captured in North Africa and transported to the Orkney Islands.

122, 123. (RCHM 42).

12th-14th century flint church with Romanesque, Transitional and Perpendicular features, wall monuments, and a beautifully painted organ.

The striking US Air Force Cadet Chapel, made of steel, aluminum and glass, has 17 pointy spires resembling fighter jets soaring up to the sky.

Founded in 1446 by King Henry VI, King's College Chapel is famed for its Late Gothic architecture, rare 16th-century stained glass, exquisite fan vaulting, Renaissance screen, and Rubens altarpiece.