RAF Chapel

Cromwell was disinterred in 1661, after the Stuart Restoration, when his corpse was ritually hung from the gallows at Tyburn, where it was finally buried.

[1] The chapel received extensive bomb damage during the Battle of Britain in 1940 and its Tudor glass windows were blown out at the same time.

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Trenchard and Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding headed a committee to raise funds for the furnishing of this chapel and for a stained glass window, the Battle of Britain memorial window, which was unveiled by King George VI on 10 July 1947.

Illuminated by calligrapher Daisy Alcock, the original work was paid for by Captain Bruce Ingram.

[4] The service is a ticket-only event, arranged by the Royal Air Force Ceremonial Office.