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Chapels in early modern London or remembered by early modern Londoners and represented in MoEML’s sources. Chapels do not have parishes associated with them. Chapels are usually located within churches, great houses, guildhalls, and palaces.
Programmer, 2018-present. Junior Programmer, 2015-2017. Research Assistant, 2014-2017. Joey Takeda was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in English (with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary research interests included diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.
Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–2020. Associate Project Director, 2015. Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to
Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of
Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.
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The Chapel at the North Door of St. Paul’s was founded by a faire house
(Stow 1598, sig. S5r). Persons of note buried in this chapel include
The
West from [the Counter (Poultry)], was a proper Chappell, called of Corpus Christi, and Saint Mary at Cony hope lane end, in the Parish of Saint Mildred (Poultry), founded by one namedIonnirunnes , a Citizen of London, in the raigne ofEdward the third .
The Chapel of Jesus was located under the choir in St. Paul’s Cathedral. It was founded in the fraternitie, and guild, to the honour of the most glorious name of
(Stow 1598, sig. S5v). The entrance of the chapel was decorated with an image of
The Chapel of St. John (Southwark) was located on the north side of St. Mary Magdalen (Southwark). According to
Located on London Bridge, the Chapel of St. Thomas on the Bridge was a chapel dedicated to
The Charnel House and Chapel of St. Edmund and Mary
Magdalen was a mortuary chapel in Bishopsgate
Ward on the east side of Bishopsgate
Street. Prockter and Taylor suggest that the
Charnel House and Chapel of St. Edmund and Mary
Magdalen is the long, solitary building within the walled compound
northwest of the Artillery Yard on the Agas
map (Prockter and Taylor). References to this chapel are sparse in historical records,
but we know from was founded about the yeare 1391. by William
Euesham Citizen and Peperer of London, who was there buried
(Stow).
After the original Guildhall Chapel, which was built around small and ruinous
in the reign of only partly destroyed in the Fire of 1666, and was of the Gothic order of a nave and aisles, the upper windows being restored in the Tuscan style
(Harben 396). Other names for the location, according to Harben, are
One of the most opulent sites in early modern London, Henry VII’s Chapel still stands in the eastern wing of Westminster Abbey. The structure was initially intended
to monumentalize
Holmes College, also known as the Chapel of the Holy Ghost and the Chapel of St. Mary Magdalen, was located on the north side of St. Paul’s Cathedral (Stow 1598, sig. S5r, S8v). It was founded by
Lady Chapel (Christ Church) was a chapel in Christ Church located by the organs (Kingsford). Those of note buried within the chapel include
Lady Chapel (St. Paul’s) was at the east end of St. Paul’s Cathedral. It was built by
Henry A. Harben decribes the Mercers’ Chapel as being located
(Harben 404). At one time part of the Hospital of St. Thomas of Acon, the location was obtained by the
Postles Chapel (Christ Church) also known as chapel of the Apostles was a chapel in Christ Church located south of the choir (Nichols). Those of note buried within the chapel include
Pountney’s College and Chapel was adjoined to the Church of St. Lawrence Pountney; the chapel, erected
was built in a College
was also founded (Harben 342). The [p]atronage of the College [was] in the hands of Edmund de la Pole, duke of Suffolk at the time of his attainder, when it passed to the Crown
and it was [d]issolved by [
(Harben 342).
St. John the Baptist’s Chapel of the Savoy was
built by
St. John’s Chapel in the Tower was located in the White Tower. The chapel served as a place of worship for the Constable and officers of the Tower
and was also used on State occasions (Harben). In
A chapel located just north of All Hallows Barking. some haue written that his heart was buried there vnder the high altar
(Stow 130).
According to
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Chapels in early modern London or remembered by early modern Londoners and represented in MoEML’s sources. Chapels do not have parishes associated with them. Chapels are usually located within churches, great houses, guildhalls, and palaces.