THE GUARDS' CHAPEL -WELLINGTON BARRACKS

First edition: 131 pages, frontispiece, original red pebble grained cloth titled gilt with armorial crest on the upper cover and spine slightly soiled along the edges of the covers, a good copy.

The index to memorials s included on pages 126 – 131

Loosely inserted is an article reprinted from the Times September 29 1914 – Second to None – the great record of the Coldstream, bound in red printed wrappers - paperback - with the title Coldstream Guards. 8 pages.

The Royal Military Chapel, St. James Park, known as the Guards Chapel, is the religious home of the Household Division -The Household Cavalry (The Life Guards and The Blues and Royals) and the Guards Division, made up from five Regiments of the Foot Guards, Grenadiers, Coldstream, Scots, Irish Guards and Welsh Guards. at the Wellington Barracks in London.

Constructed between 1839–40 in the style of a Grecian temple and restored in the 1870s the first service to be held in the Royal Military Chapel (The Guards Chapel) took place on 6 May 1838.

The interior of the original chapel was described as not only ‘plain’ but also bare and ugly. In the 1870’s the Brigade of Guards carried out the first stages of the beautification of the chapel. George Edmund Street, a distinguished architect of the day, prepared plans for the construction of an apse to form a chancel and re-designed the interior of the chapel in the Lombardo Byzantine style; this work was completed in 1879. Thereafter as money was subscribed more and more embellishments were added as memorials and the chapel became justly famed for the beauty and richness of its decoration, every piece of which was a memorial to a member of the Brigade.
http://ctiw.london/2012/guards-chapel/