The Minters are mainly remembered for their restoration of St George’s Chapel, at Windsor Castle. The Chapel had originally been built in Tudor times with the ‘King’s Beasts’, which were large carved stone statues on the parapets, but in 1682 Sir Christopher Wren found them ‘decayed and dangerous’ and they were removed.
In the 1920s when the Chapel was being renovated it was suggested that they should be replaced. Frederick George Minter offered to pay for the statues and also carve them in his Putney building yard.
In addition he gave £4000 to the Chapel Restoration Fund. Frederick George died in 1927 but Sir Frederick continued the financing and completed the project. In the end 76 ‘beasts’ of 14 different designs were erected on the parapets.