{"id":9746,"date":"2025-04-06T13:11:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T13:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/?p=9746"},"modified":"2025-04-07T19:29:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T19:29:05","slug":"visit-to-the-guards-chapel-and-st-mary-the-boltons-saturday-8th-march-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/?p=9746","title":{"rendered":"Visit to the Guards&#8217; Chapel and St. Mary The Boltons, Saturday 8th March 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>On Saturday 8 March 12 SSLSO members visited the extraordinary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.householddivision.org.uk\/guards-chapel\">Guards\u2019 chapel<\/a> in Birdcage Walk.&nbsp; This looks nondescript from the outside but was quite spectacular inside!&nbsp; The organist, Martin Ford, demonstrated the organ, aided by a remarkable app on his phone that made the organ play remotely on his command.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/npor.org.uk\/survey\/M00249\">The organ<\/a> has 3 manuals but 4 divisions (the Great comprises two separate divisions) so there was plenty to explore. We could also go to the&nbsp; military band\u2019s gallery, opposite the organ, for a good view.&nbsp; 2\u00bd hours went very quickly!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the afternoon we moved on to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stmarytheboltons.org.uk\/\">St Mary the Boltons<\/a> where our member John Ward very kindly demonstrated the <a href=\"https:\/\/npor.org.uk\/survey\/N17245\">2 manual Compton<\/a> which had a remarkable variety of tone colours to try out.&nbsp; Many thanks to the team at St Mary\u2019s for a very warm welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250308_142433_resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"9747\" src=\"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250308_142433_resized-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250308_142433_resized-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250308_142433_resized-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250308_142433_resized-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250308_142433_resized-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250308_142433_resized.jpg 1530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">St Mary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250308_115434_resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"9749\" src=\"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250308_115434_resized-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250308_115434_resized-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250308_115434_resized-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250308_115434_resized-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250308_115434_resized-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250308_115434_resized.jpg 1530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Guards&#8217; Chapel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250308_105202_resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"9748\" src=\"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250308_105202_resized-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250308_105202_resized-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250308_105202_resized-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250308_105202_resized-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250308_105202_resized-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250308_105202_resized.jpg 1530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Harrisons Organ, Guards&#8217; Chapel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9746"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9773,"href":"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9746\/revisions\/9773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sslso.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}