'Lost chapel' of Westminster Palace revealed in new 3-D model
October 6, 2017
‘Lost chapel’ of Westminster Palace revealed in new 3D model
St Stephen’s was built by King Edward I to be a show-case of English royal splendour. Credit: University of York
The first dedicated House of Commons chamber, destroyed in the 1834 Palace of Westminster fire, has been reconstructed with the help of 3-D visualisation technology.
The House of Commons took shape in the medieval chapel of St Stephen, formerly a place of worship for the royal family. With few traces of the original building still remaining, echoes of the life of the chapel can only be found in centuries-old documents in parliamentary and national archives.
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