Affixed to the panelling at the back of the stalls in the choir of St. George's chapel at Windsor are a great number of gilt plates of various sizes and shapes, but chiefly rectangular, resplendent with enamelled and painted armorial ensigns. These are the stall-plates of the Knights of the Garter; a series of memorials extending over a period of upwards of five hundred years, and forming such a storehouse of ancient and modern historical armory as exists nowhere else in Europe.