{"id":362504,"date":"2026-01-10T09:06:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/362504\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T09:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:06:06","slug":"medieval-queen-funded-chapel-after-death-of-heir-in-guildford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/362504\/","title":{"rendered":"Medieval queen &#8216;funded chapel after death of heir&#8217; in Guildford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The death of a medieval heir to the English throne could have led to the construction of a now-ruined chapel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">St Catherine&#8217;s Chapel, which overlooked Guildford in Surrey, is thought to have been funded by dowager queen Eleanor of Provence, according to tour guide Hugh Anscombe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/brand\/p0hy6kcq\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Secret Surrey<\/a> that the queen, married to Henry III, had come to the town with grandson Prince Henry, who was &#8220;unwell in London&#8221;. The six-year-old died there in 1274.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It may be partly for that reason that his granny decided that this would be the right place for a wonderful chapel,&#8221; Anscombe said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The death of a medieval heir to the English throne could have led to the construction of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-362504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}