Discover how St Stephen's Chapel was transformed from the private chapel of a king to a debating chamber for commoners - as ordinary people gradually took over the reins of state.

The first House of Commons took shape in St. Stephens Chapel in the Palace of Westminster. For a period of 70 years, it had been furnished and used by Edward I, Edward II and Edward III, creating ...

St Stephen's Chapel Westminster is one of Europe's great lost buildings. An elaborate palatine chapel, work on it began in 1292 and continued until at least 1363. After 1546 it became the House of ...

The body of Britain’s first woman prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, will lie in a chapel at Westminster Tuesday overnight before a funeral service on Wednesday.

Edward I’s chapel was probably instigated in response to the completion of the great domestic 'Sainte Chapelle' of King Louis IX of France, within his palace on the Isle de la Cité in Paris.