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DragonSlayer What does a chaple look like? A picture would be nice.
Peter Most remaining chapels are small bare rooms. Only where a castle was turned into a major accomodation\part house, do chapels perhaps look like a small church with alter, panneling etc.
As already mentioned a chapel in a castle may be given a fine window because of its high status within the castle complex. There is a fair chance it would have a ribbed roof. In one wall there would no doubt be set a 'Stoup', a small stone basin for holy water.
All other fixtures, cross,chalice etc. would be kept in a special wooden chest for instant removal. Walls would no doubt be painted with holy scenes.
Philip Davis Every chapel is different but the basics are that a chapel is a room with an alter (Generally at the east end of the room). The alter might be of stone or could be a simple wooden table. The would also be a piscina. This is a basin for washing the sacramental vessels. It might just be a basin on a sidetable but some chapels have stone basins put in a decorated niche in the wall near the alter. Generally chapels would be richly decorated with stone carvings (which often survive today) and with wall paintings and paint decoration (which rarely survives) and as rich alter cloths and vessels as the chapel owner could afford.
You can try the following links for pictures

http://www.castlewales.com/kilpeck.html This is actually a small parish church but gives a good idea of what a large castle chapel would have looked like in the 12th century
http://www.castlewales.com/ludlow.html has a couple of pictures of the unusual round chapel of Ludlow castle.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mwcook/bodiam.html has a picture of the chapel window of Bodiam castle. The chapel window was often the biggest and most elaborate window in a castle.
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[This message has been edited by Philip Davis (edited 02-10-2001).]
Knightgurl Hey, DragonSlayer! A Chapel is just a small room of worship. Good luck!

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T O P I C R E V I E W
DragonSlayer	What does a chaple look like? A picture would be nice.
Peter	Most remaining chapels are small bare rooms. Only where a castle was turned into a major accomodation\part house, do chapels perhaps look like a small church with alter, panneling etc. As already mentioned a chapel in a castle may be given a fine window because of its high status within the castle complex. There is a fair chance it would have a ribbed roof. In one wall there would no doubt be set a 'Stoup', a small stone basin for holy water. All other fixtures, cross,chalice etc. would be kept in a special wooden chest for instant removal. Walls would no doubt be painted with holy scenes.
Philip Davis	Every chapel is different but the basics are that a chapel is a room with an alter (Generally at the east end of the room). The alter might be of stone or could be a simple wooden table. The would also be a piscina. This is a basin for washing the sacramental vessels. It might just be a basin on a sidetable but some chapels have stone basins put in a decorated niche in the wall near the alter. Generally chapels would be richly decorated with stone carvings (which often survive today) and with wall paintings and paint decoration (which rarely survives) and as rich alter cloths and vessels as the chapel owner could afford. You can try the following links for pictures http://www.castlewales.com/kilpeck.html This is actually a small parish church but gives a good idea of what a large castle chapel would have looked like in the 12th century http://www.castlewales.com/ludlow.html has a couple of pictures of the unusual round chapel of Ludlow castle. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mwcook/bodiam.html has a picture of the chapel window of Bodiam castle. The chapel window was often the biggest and most elaborate window in a castle. ------------------ And the astronomyours beheldyne the constellacions of hys bryth by thare castle, and foundyn that he sholde bene wyse and curteyse, good of consaill Secreta Secretorum Visit Castellarium Philippis [This message has been edited by Philip Davis (edited 02-10-2001).]
Knightgurl	Hey, DragonSlayer! A Chapel is just a small room of worship. Good luck!