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Prince Consort's Memorial Chapel
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At the east end of St. George's Chapel, and divided from it by the cloisters, is the Prince Consort's Memorial Chapel, a lofty stone building, originally called Wolsey's Chapel, but subsequently restored and fitted up at the expense of the Queen with a series of exquisite marble mosaics by Baron Triqueti, of which the finest is perhaps "Christ upon the Mount of Olives" a white marble bas-relief medallion portrait of the Prince Consort, by Miss Durant, various bas-reliefs representing sacred subjects, mosaics by Salviati, stained glass windows by Clayton and Bell, green, black, and white marble seats - the whole forming a magnificent coup d'oeil in which grandeur of design and harmony of detail are admirably blended.
Beneath this chapel is the royal cemetery, originally excavated by George III., with receptacles for coffins on either side, consisting of four ranges of shelves supported by octagonal pillars. A subterranean passage leads down from the choir of St. George's Chapel into this mortuary, which contains the remains of the children of George III. and of the Duke of Clarence, Princess Amelia, Princess Charlotte, Queen Charlotte, the Duke of Kent, George III., the Duke of York, George IV., William IV., Princess Augusta, and Queen Adelaide.
The Deanery, at the east end of the Memorial Chapel, contains the Garter-room, in which the Knights robe before the holding of their installation meetings.
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