Coordinates: 51°30′27″N 0°4′35″W / 51.5075°N 0.07639°W / 51.5075; -0.07639
Norman chapel inside the White Tower
St. John's Chapel is located in the Tower of London. The building dates from 1080.
A Romanesque chapel, St. John's is on the second floor of the White Tower, which was built in 1077–97 as a keep or citadel, the oldest part of William the Conqueror's powerful fortress. It was constructed from stone imported from France, and has a tunnel-vaulted nave with an east apse and groin-vaulted aisles, and the gallery above curves around the apse. Thick, round piers support unmoulded arches, notable for their simplicity, with simple carvings of scallop and leaf designs providing the only decoration.
The chapel has survived complete from the early Norman period, whereas other Norman churches in England date from the mid-12th century. Because St Peter ad Vincula is the parish church of the Tower of London, St. John's Chapel is often overlooked.
Services are held in the chapel periodically during the year.
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Chapels Royal
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Canada  |
- Christ Church Royal Chapel, Deseronto
- Her Majesty's Royal Chapel of the Mohawks, Brantford
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United Kingdom  |
- Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace
- Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace
- Queen's Chapel, St. James's Palace
- St John's Chapel, London
- St. Peter ad Vincula, London
- Savoy Chapel, London
- St Katherine-upon-the-Hoe, Plymouth
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| Former |
- Chapel Royal, Brighton
- Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle
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| Ancient parish churches (pre-1800) |
- Christ Church, Spitalfields
- St Anne, Limehouse
- St Dunstan, Stepney
- St George in the East
- St John of Wapping
- St Katharine's by the Tower
- St Leonard, Bromley
- St Mary, Stratford-le-Bow
- St Mary Matfelon, Whitechapel
- St Matthew, Bethnal Green
- St Matthias Old Church, Poplar
- St Paul, Shadwell
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| Anglican daughter churches |
- All Hallows, Bow
- All Saints, Poplar
- St Barnabas's, Bethnal Green
- St James-the-Less, Bethnal Green
- St John on Bethnal Green
- St Paul, Bow Common
- St Paul's, Old Ford
- St Peter's, Bethnal Green
- St Peter, London Docks
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| Royal Peculiars |
- St Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London
- St John's Chapel, Tower of London
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| Other denominations |
- Bromley-by-Bow United Reformed Church
- English Martyrs, Tower Hill
- Guardian Angels, Mile End
- Holy Name & Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Bow
- Our Lady & St Catherine of Siena, Bow
- Our Lady Immaculate, Limehouse
- St Anne, Whitechapel
- St. Casimir's Lithuanian Church
- St Edmund, Millwall
- St George's German Lutheran Church
- St Mary & St Joseph, Poplar
- St Mary & St Michael, Shadwell
- St Patrick, Wapping
- St Paul, Cubitt Town
- Trinity Independent Chapel, Poplar
- Zoar Chapel, Whitechapel
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