""You look for light and comfort in dark times; I couldn't take my baby home like planned and my mum, who passed in 2021, was religious and would pray. "So, I visited the chapel. It is a place of peace and calmness. It felt as though you were leaving the hospital and became somewhere my family and I would regularly visit.""
""It was a big goal for us, to be able to take Maxwell to the chapel. The little milestone of getting him off the drip long enough for him to go was such a great thing "Anytime friends or family visited, I would make sure I had time to take them to the chapel. "It is such a beautiful and amazing place and played a part in our time at GOSH which I am so thankful for.""
St Christopher's Chapel at Great Ormond Street Hospital opened in 1875 and is marking its 150th anniversary. The chapel's rich Victorian decoration drew admiration, with Oscar Wilde calling it "the most delightful private chapel in London". During hospital expansion the chapel was placed on a concrete slab inside an enormous waterproof box, moved slowly over three days by a hydraulic device and fixed with concrete in the Variety Club Building in 1990. Former patients and families recall the chapel as a place of peace and calm. Claire described bringing her son Maxwell to the chapel during his cancer treatment and later having him christened there after his treatment ended.
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