Page:Hutton, William Holden - Hampton Court (1897).djvu/215

 CHAPTER IV HAMPTON COURT AND THE CHURCH

I

Built by a great ecclesiastic and adorned with a chapel, which, much as it has been transformed, is still to-day a dignified and stately memorial of its founder, it is natural that Hampton Court should have an interest for churchmen. In this regard, even more than in others, it presents a series ofdetached episodes. During the three centuries and a half the chapel goes on with its quiet homely household services, varied from time to time as the Church varied its rules or royal influence 139