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1950-2000 / Colour / Paper / Photograph / Wesley's Chapel
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Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II leaving Wesley's Chapel, 1978

Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II leaving Wesley's Chapel after the re-opening ceremony at the Chapel in November 1978. Behind Her Majesty follow local dignitaries and her lady-in-waiting.

The Chapel had undergone a comprehensive scheme of restoration between 1972 and 1978, following severe structural issues with the foundations, the roof and the south gallery. The re-opening ceremony took place two hundred years to the day of the Chapel opening in November 1778.

See also the other photographs of the same occasion in the Online Collection.