St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

===The Royal Beasts===
[[File:St Georges Chapel Windsor 02.jpg|thumb|The [[King's Beasts, St George's Chapel|Royal Beasts]] shown atop the pinnacles]]
On the roof of the chapel, standing on the pinnacles, and also on pinnacles at the sides, are seventy-six heraldic statues representing the [[King's Beasts, St George's Chapel|Royal Beasts]]. They represent fourteen of the heraldic animals: the [[Lion (heraldry)|lion]] of [[Kingdom of England|England]], the [[Welsh Dragon|red dragon]] of [[Principality of Wales|Wales]], the [[Panthera|panther]] of [[Jane Seymour]], the [[falcon]] of [[House of York|York]], the black bull of [[Duke of Clarence|Clarence]], the [[Yale (mythical creature)|yale]] of [[Duke of Beaufort|Beaufort]], the white lion of [[Mortimer]], the [[White Greyhound of Richmond|greyhound of Richmond]], the white [[Hart (deer)|hart]] of [[Richard II of England|Richard II]], the collared silver [[antelope]] of [[Bohun family|Bohun]], the black dragon of [[Ulster]], the [[Bohun swan|white swan]] of [[Hereford]], the [[unicorn]] of Edward III and the golden [[Deer|hind]] of [[Kent]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://inel.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/windsor-royal-beasts-on-st-georges-chapel-roof/|title=Windsor Royal Beasts on St George's Chapel roof|date=6 July 2008|publisher=Wordpress|access-date=10 October 2014}}</ref>

The original beasts dated from the sixteenth century, but were removed in 1682 on the advice of Sir [[Christopher Wren]]. Wren had criticised the [[Reigate Stone]], the calcareous sandstone from which they were constructed. The present statues date from 1925 when the chapel was restored.<ref name="London1953">{{cite book|last= London|first=H. Stanford|title="The" Queen's Beasts: An Account with New Drawings of the Heraldic Animals Witch Stood at the Entrance to Westminster Abbey on the Occasion of the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II., 2. June 1953|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2288swEACAAJ|year=1953|publisher=Newman Neame|page=15}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Sir Frederick Minter |work=[[The Times]] |page= 19 |date= 15 July 1976}}</ref>