Guild Chapel

The chapel was restored in a thirty-year programme undertaken by Stephen Dykes Bower from 1954-1983 and is a Grade I listed building.

Owned and maintained by the Stratford-upon-Avon Town Trust, the chapel is used for services by King Edward VI School.

[2] Members paid fees to join and a range of services were provided, including a hospital and a school, the provision of a priest to pray for the dead, as well as support for the poor.

[4] Clopton's wall-paintings depicted a cycle of images[5] showing, among others, the Doom, the Allegory of Death, the Life of Adam and St George Slaying the Dragon.

They were covered over by John Shakespeare some time in the 1560s-1570s, acting as town chamberlain and in accordance with Elizabeth I's injunction of 1559 to remove "all signs of superstition and idolatry from places of worship".