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The Garter Porch in Windsor Castle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

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page 106 note 2 I am most grateful to members of the staff of the Ministry for information concerning this entrance, and notably to Mr. A. J. Taylor, our Secretary, and Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments, and to Mr. J. W. Worricker, then architect in charge of the restoration of the Albert Memorial Chapel.

page 106 note 3 Windsor Records, P. 64. The porch is noted as ‘Modern Porch to the Tomb House’.

page 106 note 4 Royal Library, Windsor Castle, Drawing 17438.

page 106 note 5 In the volume of Fenton photographs.

page 106 note 6 The Accounts of Works quoted by Sir William St. John Hope in Windsor Castle (1913), pp. 486–7 in connexion with the Wolsey Chapel are of Christmas 1814. Subsequent accounts comprise the very general Reports of the Commissioners of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues and Works and Buildings (P.R.O. Works, 5/183/3–9), and the Accounts for Works which appear in the records of the Land Revenue Office (P.R.O., L.R.R.O. 2/5ndash;12), neither of which series deals with the construction of the entrance and porch.

page 107 note 1 Hope, op. cit., pp. 485–6: cf. also the essay by Ambrose Poynter prefixed to Wyatville's Illustrations of Windsor Castle(1841), pp. 1–20. Sir Owen Morshead reminds us that King George III ‘had realized as early as 1794 that there was only room for one more coffin in the royal burial place in Westminster Abbey’ (Morshead, Windsor Castle, 2nd ed. (1957), p. 50, quoting J. Farington's MS. Diary, 8 June 1794).

page 107 note 2 The Gentleman's Magazine, lx (1790), p. 690Google Scholar.

page 107 note 3 The Windsor Guide, published C. Knight (1815), p. 125.

page 107 note 4 Wyatville, of. cit., p. 16.

page 107 note 5 Ibid.

page 107 note 6 Hope, op. cit., pp. 486–7.

page 107 note 7 Cf. Morshead, op. cit., pl. 42, an illustration of the Vault of the Kitchen Passage in the Upper Ward which shows some of the Garter Shields. More recently the shields have been returned to store.

page 108 note 1 SirNicolas, Nicholas H., History of the Orders of Knighthood, ii (1842), 323–31.Google Scholar

page 108 note 2 Lady Elvey, Life and Reminiscences of George J. Elvey (1894), p. 166. What was, perhaps, the earliest use of the reconstructed ‘Wolsey chapel’ was also musical, for a performance of an anthem by Elvey in 1840 (ibid., pp. 53–54).

page 108 note 3 Hope, op. cit., pp. 487–8.

page 108 note 4 Royal Archives, R. 40/13.

page 108 note 5 Royal Archives, P.P. Windsor, vol. 5, no. 465.