King’s Parade, Cambridge CB2 1ST, England

A magnificent chapel – Reviewed 25 April 2013

King’s College Chapel has been the venue for the BBC broadcast of the Christmas Eve service of Nine lessons and carols since 1956.

We were invited as VIP guests of the BBC for the 2012 Carols from King’s recording and mingled with producers and musicians at a pre-recording lunch at the Saltmarsh Room.

We were then escorted to the chapel and seated in the choir in the row behind the choir giving us the amazing experience of ‘being’ in the choir, hearing the individual voices of the singers in front of us, as well as the blend of voices from the choristers on the other side of the chancel, all in the soft light of the candles which created quite a magical atmosphere.

If you attend a service, try to sit behind the choir for an unforgettable experience.

The chapel is late gothic perpendicular architecture, with slender stone columns ascending what appears to be an impossible distance upwards and then fanning across the ceiling.

The fan vaulted ceiling is the largest in the world. Visited December 2012