Editing Hampton Court Palace (section)

==The Chapel==
[[File:Hampton Court Avri 2009 35.jpg|thumb|upright|left|[[Stained glass]] windows in the Great Watching Chamber]]
The timber and plaster ceiling of the chapel is considered the "most important and magnificent in Britain",<ref name="Thurley, P23"/> but is all that remains of the Tudor decoration, after redecoration supervised by Sir Christopher Wren. The altar is framed by a massive but plain oak [[reredos]] with garlands carved by [[Grinling Gibbons]] during the reign of [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain|Queen Anne]].<ref name="Thurley, P23"/> Opposite the altar, at first-floor level, is the royal pew where the royal family would attend services apart from the general congregation seated below.

The clergy, musicians and other ecclesiastical officers employed by the monarch at Hampton Court, as in other English royal premises, are known collectively as the [[Chapel Royal]]; properly used the term does not refer to a building.