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Venues : Around Windsor : Royal Holloway University of London

Royal Holloway Chapel

The ecumenical Chapel at Royal Holloway was the last part of the College to be completed in 1886 and is typical of those associated with seats of learning. Inside, fine ceiling reliefs by Italian sculptor Ceccardo Fucigna, stained glass windows and gilt stenciled walls provide rich decoration. Directed by the College organist Lionel Pike, Royal Holloway's mixed voice choir sings in the Chapel daily, and is the most frequently performing non-auditioned choir in the UK.

The Picture Gallery

The Picture Gallery houses what is renowned to be the finest private collection of Victorian art in the country. In the last years of his life, between 1881 and 1883, Thomas Holloway, a self-made multi-millionaire whose fortune had been made in patent medicines, paid well over 80,000 pounds (equivalent to more than 6 million pounds in today's terms) for the seventy-seven paintings which make up the Royal Holloway Collection.

This was the final touch to Holloway's generous endowment of a College for women, founded in 1879 and opened by Queen Victoria in June 1886.