Musicians' Chapel
This chapel on the north side of the church was formerly called St. Stephen Harding's Chapel and has a window, designed and presented by Archibald Nicholson in 1932, dedicated to St. Stephen Harding. It was here, in St. Stephen Harding's chapel that young Henry Wood learnt to play the organ. At the age of fourteen he was appointed Assistant Organist. He went on to found the famous Promenade Concerts which still run in London every summer.
When Sir Henry died in 1944 it was to the Musicians' Chapel that his ashes were brought. They now lie beneath the central, St. Cecilia, window. In this window Henry Wood is shown as a young boy at the organ and as the mature Sir Henry conducting a Promenade Concert at the Queen's Hall. In the Musicians' Chapel there are also fine modern windows by Brian Thomas depicting the renowned singer Dame Nellie Melba and the composer John Ireland, and above the altar the 'Magnificat' window in memory of Walter Carroll.
On the south wall of the chapel is a case containing the Musicians' Book of Remembrance.