11/7/2023 0 Comments Second and charles whitehall![]() ![]() The Danish church was demolished in 1869 and its fittings dispersed by means of an auction held that same year. The Grinling Gibbons pulpit was given in 1696 to the Danish church in Wellclose Square, at that time still under construction. In 1698, the chapel was destroyed by the second fire and the exiled James II was living ‘over the water’ at the royal chateau of Saint-Germain-en-Laye in France, Louis XIV having made peace with William III in England the previous year.Īccording to the entry in the 1930 Survey of London for Westminster, it was thought possible that in addition to the altar-piece and organ having survived, the pulpit may also have been then existing in some church, as yet unknown. ![]() The chapel was used on Christmas Day 1686, and the great diarist, John Evelyn records having attended service there.įollowing the first fire at Whitehall Palace in 1691, there was a plan to change the Roman Catholic Chapel into a library which seems not to have been executed. The renowned Italian painter Antonio Verrio, engaged in the decorations of both Windsor Castle and Hampton Court Palace, painted the ceilings of the chapel as well as the walls. It was eighty feet long, built of brick and dressed with Portland stone. The Roman Catholic Chapel at Whitehall was built in the north-west corner of the Privy Garden as part of the extension of the Privy Gallery. Following the fire of 1698 (which lasted some seventeen hours) the chapel royal, which had been repaired ten years earlier at Anne’s request, was virtually destroyed – its ruins found secular use as a venue for archery instead. During the time that James II occupied Whitehall, he would have used the Roman Catholic Chapel being Catholic, although Whitehall’s chapel royal continued to be used by his daughter Princess Anne who, as a Protestant, was permitted the right to carry on worshipping there. ![]() 1669-70 shows the first floor of Whitehall during the earlier reign of Charles II, where the King’s oratory was known as the ‘Little Chapel’, lying to the west of the Whitehall ‘Chapel’. A reconstructed plan of Whitehall Palace c. The chapel built by James II at Whitehall Palace was important, known as the Roman Catholic Chapel, to distinguish it from its other Whitehall royal peculiar, the chapel royal. The Society of King Charles the Martyr acknowledges the use of the Banqueting Hall as such, and on this day, a sung Mass is performed, together with a veneration of several ‘relics’. It continued to be used as a chapel until 1893 when Queen Victoria gave it to the Royal United Services Institute services are still held in the Banqueting Hall annually on 30 January, the anniversary of the execution of Charles I. The chapel at Whitehall was built for James II, who was the last of the Stuart monarchs to actually occupy the palace, and after the fire in 1698, the Banqueting Hall with its Rubens ceiling took over this function instead, to replace the earlier one. ![]() It is no small irony that on Restoration Day 1660, Charles II ended his procession through the streets of London at Whitehall, as if to emphasise the fact that the Stuart line simply joined up again at the site of his father’s execution and thereby closed the gap of his exile during the years of the Commonwealth, to continue as it had begun. It was almost righting a ‘divine’ wrong through palatial architecture. His son and successor, Charles I was executed on a scaffold erected outside the Banqueting House in 1649, having first walked beneath the great Rubens painting which he had commissioned to glorify his father, James I and which also alluded to his birth. The Banqueting House was built for the first Stuart monarch James I. Whitehall Palace is, of course, inextricably linked with the Stuart monarchy. So, how did these pieces from the Palace of Whitehall finish up in an English parish church? In 1702, following Whitehall’s destruction, St James’s Palace became the main London residence of the monarchy and remained so until 1837 when the monarchy’s chief address became Buckingham Palace at the accession of Queen Victoria. The diarist John Evelyn memorably wrote in his diary, “ Whitehall burnt! Nothing but walls and ruins left“. A second fire destroyed most of Whitehall, with the exception of Inigo Jones’s magnificent neo-classical Palladian-style Banqueting House and the historic wine cellar. A fourteenth-century Anglican church in the Somerset parish of Burnham-on-Sea and Highbridge is not perhaps the place where you might expect to find several remnants from the lost Palace of Whitehall, the main London residence of England’s monarchs until 1698. ![]()
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