The Savoy Chapel, or the Queen's Chapel of the Savoy is a chapel off the Strand, London, dedicated to St John the Baptist. It was originally built in the medieval era off the main church of the Savoy Palace (later the Savoy Hospital). The Hospital was in ruins by the 19th century, and the Chapel was the only part to survive demolition. Year 1512 (MDXII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. ... John the Baptist (also called John the Baptizer or John the Dipper) is regarded as a prophet by at least three religions: Christianity, Islam, and Mandaeanism. ... Architectural style is a way of classifying architecture largely by morphological characteristics - in terms of form, techniques, materials, etc. ... Kings College Chapel outside view The Tudor style in English architecture is the final development of medieval architecture during the Tudor period (1485–1603) and even beyond, for conservative college patrons. ... An architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect is a person who is involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction. ... Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ... Strand, May 2001 St. ... John the Baptist (also called John the Baptizer or John the Dipper) is regarded as a prophet by at least three religions: Christianity, Islam, and Mandaeanism. ... The Savoy Palace was considered the grandest noblemans residence of medieval London, until it was destroyed in the uprising of 1381. ...

The original chapel was within Peter of Savoy's palace, and was destroyed with it in the Peasants' Revolt in 1381. The present Chapel building was constructed in the 1490s (and finished in 1512) by Henry VII as a side chapel off his Hospital's 200 ft long nave (this nave was secular rather than sacred, held 100 beds, and was demolished in the 19th century). The end of the revolt: Wat Tyler killed by Walworth while Richard II watches, and a second image of Richard addressing the crowd The Peasants Revolt, Tyler’s Rebellion, or the Great Rising of 1381 was one of a number of popular revolts in late medieval Europe and is a... Year 1381 was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. ... Henry VII (January 28, 1457 – April 21, 1509), King of England, Lord of Ireland (August 22, 1485 – April 21, 1509), was the founder and first patriarch of the Tudor dynasty. ... Neogothic chapel in Mošovce, Slovakia For other uses, see Chapel (disambiguation). ... Links to full descriptions of the elements of a Gothic floorplan are also found at the entry Cathedral diagram. ...

The chapel has been the host to various other congregations, most especially 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[1]) was granted royal permission to worship here, when it split from Holy Trinity (the City of London Lutheran congregation, now at St Anne and St Agnes).[2] 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. St Mary-Le-Strand viewed from the West St Mary-le-Strand is a Church of England church on Strand, London, in the City of Westminster, London. ... The Lutheran movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity by the original definition. ... The City of London is a geographically-small city within Greater London, England. ... St Anne and St Agnes is an Anglican church located at Gresham Street in the City of London, near the Barbican. ...

As an Anglican church, the chapel has been noted in the eighteenth century as a place where marriages without banns might illegally occur.[3], and was referred to in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited as ‘the place where divorced couples got married in those days - a poky little place’.[4] The public can still worship here (services are held on Sundays and every Wednesday lunchtime, except in August and September), and the chapel is open to the public every day except Monday.[5] The banns of marriage or, simply the banns, (from an Old English word meaning to summon) are the public announcement from the pulpit that a marriage is going to take place in that church between two specified persons at a specified time. ... Evelyn Waugh, as photographed in 1940 by Carl Van Vechten Arthur Evelyn St. ... Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. ...

This Chapel has always been royal property as part of the Savoy Hospital complex, and is now the property of the monarch as part of the Duchy of Lancaster, as a royal peculiar with its Chaplain appointed by the Duchy (the current holder being The Reverend Prebendary William Scott). It was made the chapel of the Royal Victorian Order in 1937 (its chaplain being chaplain to the order also), and in effect 'parish church' to the Savoy Estate, the Duchy of Lancaster's principal London land holding. Its costs and maintenance are met by the Duchy, with recent work including the landscaping of the gardens in honour of Her Majesty's Golden Jubilee, and the restoration of the chapel ceiling in 1999. A not-so-nice duchy. ... A Royal Peculiar (or Royal Peculier) is a place of worship that falls directly under the jurisdiction of the British monarch, rather than a diocese. ... Queen Victoria founded the Royal Victorian Order. ... Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ...