Exterior view

Jones’s Queen’s Chapel at St James’s Palace, London, incorporates a central arched opening and end quoins in its west front; it also has a pediment, although the fa�ade is devoid of orders. The interior has a distinctive coffered vault based on Palladio’s reconstruction (I quattro libri, IV) of the ‘Temple of the Sun and Moon’ (actually the Temple of Venus and Rome). A large Venetian window - the first executed by Jones - dominates the east end.

The simple interior was more suited to Protestant use than to the elaborate liturgy of the Catholic Church, although the building was constructed for a Catholic queen (originally intended for the Spanish Infanta but completed for the French Queen Henrietta Maria, for whom Jones also carried out other works.

The photo shows the Marlborough Road front.