Worksop College

Worksop College comprises school buildings arranged in a quadrangle plan with projecting wings. The complex was built over several phases. The original school buildings with hall, ante-hall, west wing and part of north wing date to 1895, designed by R. H. Carpenter for Canon Woodard. The Headmaster's house followed in 1897, with an addition around 1925. The chapel was designed by Aston Webb in 1909. Further wings were added in 1907, 1928, 1931 and 1934 by B. D. Thompson. The buildings are constructed in brick with plain tile roofs and ashlar dressings, executed in the Tudor Revival style.

The hall is a single-storey building of 7 bays with a chamfered plinth, gabled buttresses, sill and eaves bands, and a crenellated parapet with traceried panels. Both the east and west gables are crow-stepped with traceried panels. The west front features 4 paired ogee-headed mullioned and transomed casements, with 3 larger similar casements in the intermediate bays. These bays have crow-stepped gables with traceried panels, pilasters and ball finials. The west gable displays traceried panels flanked by pilasters with ball finials. The interior is panelled and features a massive hammer beam roof with large octagonal iron lanterns suspended from pendants. The fittings include tables, benches and chairs by Thompson of Kilburn.

The west wing is three storeys plus attics, extending 16 bays, with a projecting crow-stepped gabled bay to the left. It has three decorative bands, dentillated eaves, three roof stacks and a single ridge stack. Two superimposed stair windows flank the left side, with 13 mullioned and transomed casements on each of three floors. Above these are 7 crow-stepped gabled dormers, and further up, single flat-roofed and gabled dormers.

The Headmaster's house is three storeys arranged on an L-plan with 4 unequal bays. It has a balanced facade featuring a major projecting crow-stepped gabled bay and porch, with irregular fenestration of mullioned and transomed casements.

The south wing is three storeys plus attics, extending 23 bays, with decorative bands, crow-stepped gables and 3 ridge stacks. It presents a symmetrical composition with a projecting central bay containing a porch and single flanking gabled wings. The central bay has a moulded four-centred arched doorway with shouldered hood mould containing the school arms.

The chapel is in Gothic Revival Free Style, consisting of an ante-chapel, nave and chancel under a continuous roof, with flanking towers to the north and south of the east end. It features a moulded plinth and sill bands with plain decorative bands and moulded ashlar eaves. The single-bay ante-chapel has a segmental-headed doorway with gabled flanking buttresses in a splayed recess containing a two-leaf door with traceried overlight. The doorway is surmounted by a massive lintel with segmental arch, relief panels and arms, and above sits a single lancet under a coped gable. The buttressed nave comprises 6 bays with 6 double lancets featuring Y tracery on each side. The west gable is coped with a shouldered bell turret. The single-bay chancel has a foundation stone at the east end inscribed 'AMDG July XXIX MDCCCCIX MRM'. The towers are three stages with square plans and octagonal third stages, topped by two-stage octagonal timber bell turrets with traceried openings and domed octagonal caps with finials. The ante-chapel features a 5-bay blind arcade with transverse doorways in the third bay from the south and a groined vault. The north window contains stained glass by Wailes. The panelled interior has decorative brick bands and a moulded sill band from which responds spring. The vault is tierceron with moulded and decorated ribs, stencilled patterns and texts. The west end has an organ gallery with parapet. The chancel arch has cove and roll moulding with shaft responds on octagonal bases. The chancel's north side has a segmental-headed aumbry, whilst the south side has double sedilia. The east end has an ashlar vault with chamfered ribs. The east window contains stained glass by Wailes, dated 1913. The fittings include moulded and panelled oak stalls, two with tracery and two with canopies, and a plain timber lectern.

The east wing is one and a half storeys, 11 bays, with a central two-storey gatehouse topped by a two-stage octagonal bell turret with tent roof and tall finial with weather vane. It is flanked on each side by 5 casements with one hipped and two crenellated dormers above each side.

The north (Portland) wing is two storeys plus attics, 12 bays, on a T-plan. It features a balustraded octagonal stair turret to the south and single projecting crow-stepped gabled bays on each side. It has 11 casements on each floor with 3 crow-stepped dormers above. The crow-stepped east gable has a recessed panel with flanking pilasters containing a two-storey canted bay window with a band of shields and crenellated parapet, and 7 casements on each floor.