GRAY'S INN		THE CHAPEL A place of worship has stood on the site of the present chapel since 1315. In 1539 the Court of Augmentations, which was set up under Henry VIII to 'augment' the revenues of the Crown by the suppression of the monasteries, investigated the duties of the chapel's priest. 'For tyme out of minde', they reported, 'he had been required to synge and say masse for the studyent gentilmen and felaws of the house of Gray's Inn'. The chapel was enlarged, when rebuilding was necessitated after the war, in order to provide adequate accommodation for the Masters of the Bench and their ladies (who sit in opposite pews!) and other members. The east window, erected in 1895 and removed during the war years, commemor-ates members and preachers of Gray's Inn who became archbishops, namely Whitgift, Juxon, Wake, and Laud. The centre panel commemorates Thomas A Becket, whose image was to be seen in the chapel until 1539. The maple wood of pews, lectern and pulpit was the gift of the Canadian Bar Association. The chapel is open between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. in winter and 6 p.m. in summer. The chaplain appointed by the Inn is known as the Preacher. At dinner in Hall he has the right of sitting eighth among the Benchers, that he may bless them by name on his fingers.