In St Stephen's College, the royally-favoured religious institution at the heart of the busy administrative world of the Palace of Westminster, church and state met and collaborated for two centuries, from its foundation to pray for the royal dead by Edward III in 1348, until it was swept away by the second wave of the Reformation in 1548.
Monarchs and visitors worshipped in the distinctive chapel on the Thames riverfront.
Even when the king and his household were absent, the college's architect.
Boydell Press St stephen's college, westminster: a royal chapel and english kingship, 1348-1548, hardcover/elizabeth biggs
