The Queen’s Chapel is located across a small roadway from St James Palace near the Pall Mall, and behind it is concealed Marlborough House. It is so called from the fact that, in about 1623, Inigo Jones was ordered to ‘prepare with great costliness’ a chapel for the services of the Infanta of Spain, the intended bride of Charles I. The new queen, as a Roman Catholic, would wish to hear mass, which would not be possible in the Chapel Royal. This marriage did not take place, but later the chapel was opened with great ceremony for Charles’s queen, Henrietta Maria. It was also used by Charles II’s queen, Katharine of Braganza. During the time of William IV permission was given by the bishop of London for German Lutheran services to be held there. The exterior of the chapel is in Palladian style and quite plain. Inside, the classical double-cube hall has a superb elliptical coffered ceiling constructed of timber. The interior retains its seventeenth-century fittings, with an altarpiece of the Holy Family by Annibale Carracci. The building was restored after World War II and is open to the public for services.