Chapel At Trent College

This is a school chapel, built in 1875 by Robinson of Derby, with later internal alterations in 1949 by Sir Albert Richardson. It is constructed of red brick with brick and stone dressings, incorporating decorative bands of yellow and blue brick, green glazed tile bands, and a continuous sill band of moulded bricks to the apse and transept bays. The roof is tiled, with stone coped gables featuring moulded kneelers, crested ridge tiles, iron ridge finials, and a dentilled eaves band.

The chapel comprises a nave with a canted apse and double-gabled transept bays. The north elevation is gabled, featuring low lean-to aisles with slate roofs on either side of a central, gabled, pointed double-chamfered arched doorcase. This doorcase has nookshafts and carved foliage labelstops to the hoodmould, with inscriptions carved on the voussoirs. The aisles have double lancet windows, with a stepped buttress and a single lancet window beyond. Above, there are two tall, pointed plate tracery windows, and a rose window. Both pointed windows have relieving arches constructed of alternating red and blue bricks, while the rose window is surrounded by a circle of similar brickwork. A small stone circle with circular vents sits at the top of the gable. The east and west elevations each feature three-light, pointed plate tracery windows within the transept bays, each with alternating brick arches below stone hoodmoulds having carved foliage stops. The west elevation incorporates a two-storey canted bay connecting to the school buildings, and the east elevation has a low lean-to aisle similar to the north elevation. A doorcase has been inserted into a double lancet window to the south, with two single lancets to the north. Above these are a double and a single lancet, both with alternating red and blue brick relieving arches, and a decorative central hopper head dated 1875. The south elevation is canted, with chamfered lancets, set high up, and canted pilaster strips to each corner, beneath a continuous stone sill band. An elaborate yellow brick cornice tops the wall, above which are red brick parapets with raised brick designs set between canted brick piers, and stone rainwater heads projecting from the angles.

Inside, the chapel has a pointed barrel vaulted timber roof with moulded ribs supported by columns with carved angel corbels at the bases. The transept bays feature a central, banded, clustered column with foliage capitals, which supports chamfered pointed arches. The nave and apse have panelling to dado height, with inscriptions in Gothic script above the dado in the nave. A large stone war memorial stands in the west transept. Stained glass by Francis Spear of 1949 fills the apse windows, while the transept windows contain late 19th and early 20th-century stained glass panels. The school building attached to the west is not of special interest.