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OttoJ Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

King's College Chapel

What's the difference between using THE and not? Is THE optional for chapel names?

Brian Walters:
-We walked up to the King's College Chapel, [...]

Nigel Pennick:
-King's College Chapel is itself equivalent to the eastward extension of the axis of St. John Zachary, and the chapel is dedicated to Our Lady.

On Cambridge University's website, I don't find THE. Is it a reliable source?
  

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I wouldn't use an article. You might guess no article from the fact that "Chapel" (capitalised) is part of the name and not just a descriptive common noun. However, the use of articles with proper names can be unpredictable and subject to local conventions, so it is always best to check with a reliable source when you are not sure.

— GPY

  • I wouldn't use an article.
  • You might guess no article from the fact that "Chapel" (capitalised) is part of the name and not just a descriptive common noun.
  • However, the use of articles with proper names can be unpredictable and subject to local conventions, so it is always best to check with a reliable source when you are not sure.
  • One would assume the University website to be reliable on this matter, and, as I say, it accords with what sounds right to me.
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I wouldn't use an article. You might guess no article from the fact that "Chapel" (capitalised) is part of the name and not just a descriptive common noun. However, the use of articles with proper names can be unpredictable and subject to local conventions, so it is always best to check with a reliable source when you are not sure. One would assume the University website to be reliable on this mat
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King's College Chapel is a church on the campus of King's College, a part of Cambridge University. Most references to it would be without "the," for example (in all of these the speaker and listener would typically be somehow associated with King's College and/or very familiar with all its buildings):

"I go to King's College Chapel for Sunday services."

"We were married at Kin
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