The story of the grotesques at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle is being told in an exhibition in the Dean’s Cloister that opened on 12 September and will continue until December.

The Dean, the Right Reverend David Conner, opened the exhibition at a private viewing on the night before the exhibition opened to the public.

It includes information boards about the project, which sees new grotesques being carved in Syreford stone by students of the City and Guilds of London Art School for the medieval Chapel. The exhibition includes grotesques that will eventually go on to the building.

The project has been going on for several years. The new grotesques aim to reproduce the scale and detail of the original mediaeval carvings while allowing students the opportunity to be inventive. None of the medieval carvings survive and those being replaced are weathered Victorian carvings that replaced earlier works.

The exhibition is called 'Imaginative Sculpture: Protecting the Sacred Space' and was made possible thanks to funding by Frederic and Jean Sharf.