Royal Peculiars of The Present Day
- London
- The Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster commonly known as Westminster Abbey, and containing Henry VII's chapel which is the chapel of the Order of the Bath.
- The chapels associated with the Chapel Royal, which refers not to a building but to an establishment in the Royal Household; a body of priests and singers to explicitly serve the spiritual needs of the sovereign
- The Chapel Royal, St James's Palace
- The Queen's Chapel, St James's Palace
- The Chapel Royal, Hampton Court
- The Chapel of St John the Evangelist in the Tower of London
- The Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula in the Tower of London
- The Queen's Chapel of the Savoy, exempt from any bishop's jurisdiction and a private chapel of the sovereign in right of the Duchy of Lancaster. It is the chapel of The Royal Victorian Order. The number of members of the order in recent years has outgrown the available space in the Savoy Chapel so the service for those who have received awards is now held in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle every four years.
- The Chapel of St Mary Undercroft - the crypt of the former St Stephen's Chapel in the Palace of Westminster is also a Royal Peculiar. The building is administered through the Lord Great Chamberlain and Black Rod and it has no dedicated clergy: by convention services were conducted by the Rector of St Margaret's, Westminster, a member of the Chapter of Westminster Abbey. In 2010 the Speaker of the House of Commons used his right of appointment to nominate an outsider, Revd. Rose Hudson-Wilkin.
- The Royal Foundation of St Katharine founded in 1148 by Queen Matilda as a religious community and medieval hospital for poor infirm people next to the Tower of London.
- Edinburgh
- Chapel Royal, Holyrood Palace
- Cambridge
- The Church of St. Edward, King and Martyr, Cambridge
- Windsor
- St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, the chapel of the Order of the Garter.
- Royal Chapel of All Saints, Windsor (in the grounds of the Royal Lodge)
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