Chapel Of Bluecoat School

The Chapel of Bluecoat School, built between 1903 and 1906 by architects Briggs, Wolstenholme and Thornley, is a notable brick structure with stone dressings. It features a Greek-cross plan with canted inner angles, low extruded corners, and a narthex to the north. The chapel is adorned with a top entablature and balustrade, which includes open pediments at the centers of the cross arms and quoin strips.

The design incorporates Venetian windows with Ionic colonnettes and festoons above, set within round-arched recesses. The canted inner angles have round windows framed in square architraves. The east cross arm, which faces the street, boasts a bowed apse decorated with a Corinthian pilastrade and three round-headed windows featuring festoons on the aprons, eared architraves, and triple keys.

Atop the chapel is a shallow dome on an octagonal drum, complete with a lantern that has round-headed lights, pilasters, a cornice, and a cupola topped with a cross. The narthex contains three round-headed entrances flanked by Ionic angle pilasters, with an entablature and balustrade above. Ionic columns support a segmental pediment that features arms in the tympanum. Inside, the chapel showcases a coffered dome with round windows in four lunette recesses. The chapel is located at the southeast angle of the school.