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Article: Festival in the chapel.(FRONTLINE)(King's College Chapel)
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- History Today
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- December 1, 2007
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Carola Hicks takes a seasonal look at the stained glass of King's College Chapel, Cambridge (right), the subject of her new book.
AS FAMILIAR A PART OF CHRISTMAS as turkey and mince pies is the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols celebrated in the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge on Christmas Eve. This famous service, characterized by the poignant solo treble singing 'Once in Royal David's City', epitomizes Cambridge and its best-known building, which attracts a quarter of a million visitors a year and is England's answer to the Sistine Chapel. However, the service is not an ancient ritual, for it was instituted in 1918 by the Dean, Eric Milner-White, to ...