Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...later it was. While the King & Queen waited out the last of an eight and a half hour alarm with a morning cup of tea the whole palace shivered with the thud of bombs from low-diving Nazi raiders. A bomb dropping through the glass roof of the private chapel, a converted conservatory, had blasted chunks of masonry out of the wall, demolished the altar, shattered a mother-of-pearl cross. In the midst of the rubble they found Queen Victoria's ornately bound Family Bible. But already removed to safety was the gold altar plate of King Charles...
...kept mum. Judging from the Japanese Episcopal Church's last two clashes with the Government, the outlook was none too bright. Last year the president of Episcopal St. Paul's University, Tokyo, was forced to resign because, in reading the hallowed Imperial rescript on education in chapel on a national holiday, he stood on the altar steps, below the lectern where the Bible is read, thus ranking the Mikado lower than...
...Special service for new students in the University Memorial Chapel...
...Daily service in University Memorial Chapel...
...Daily chapel...