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Manchester Regiment and King's Regiment Chapel

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Ref No:MR03961
Record No:MRP/13/55
Date Period:1958_to_present
Title:Manchester Regiment and King's Regiment Chapel
Battalion:1st Battalion
Place:Manchester Cathedral
Further Information:

The Regimental Chapel of the Manchester Regiment and the King's Regiment (since the 2006 amalgamation also the Chapel of the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment).

This image is taken from a Regimental Christmas Card.

In front of the Chapel are a set of silver drums first presented to the Manchester Regiment in 1934, and the colours of the 5/8th Battalion of The King's Regiment, the regiment's Territorial Army unit.

The Chapel was first built in 1513.  It was converted into the Manchester Regiment Chapel in 1936.  In December 1940 it was almost destroyed by a German bomb.  The Chapel's architect, Hubert Worthington, had served in the Manchester Regiment during the First World War.  Rebuilding the chapel became a 'labour of love' for him.  It reopened in 1951.

The stained glass window was installed in 1968 in memory of the Chapel's destruction, and of Hubert and his work rebuilding it.

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