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Once serving its purpose as a religious space for the Chelsea Guards in their barracks, the Grade II-listed Garrison Chapel within Chelsea Barracks now serves as a public exhibition space for the work of the Prince’s Foundation, an educational charity established by King Charles III, when he was still Prince of Wales, in 1986.

The beautiful Romanesque-Byzantine style chapel, built in 1859, with its high ceilings and iconic ‘rose window’ – the emblem of the Chelsea Barracks – was deconsecrated in 2012 after more than 150 years as an active church. But, in 2021, the building was

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