London - Queen's Chapel of the Savoy

The Queen's Chapel of the Savoy stands in a side street off the Strand, near Waterloo Bridge. It is the Chapel of the Duchy of Lancaster and therefore a private chapel of the sovereign since, as Duke of Lancaster, the monarch is a successor, through his son King Henry IV, of John of Gaunt, second Duke of Lancaster (1340-99). John of Gaunt's palace, which once stood here, was razed to the ground during the Peasant's Revolt of 1381. Henry VII caused a great hospital for poor, needy people to be built on the site in 1512. The late Perpendicular Chapel was part of that Foundation and is all that now remains of it. The interior was gutted by fire in 1864 but restored by Queen Victoria in the original style. It is the Chapel of the Royal