Shrewsbury School Chapel

SHREWSBURY

SJ4812SE ASHTON ROAD 653-1/14/87 (North West side) 19/09/72 Shrewsbury School Chapel

GV II

School chapel. 1887. Sir Arthur Blomfield. Rock faced red sandstone with gold sandstone dressings and plain tiled roof. Nave with western narthex and chancel with chapels north and south of chancel. EXTERIOR: west front with narthex linking 2 polygonal turrets, and plate-traceried triple-stepped lancet window, with Y-tracery in the outer lights, and low relief roundels in the spandrels. Nave divided into 5 bays by buttresses: shallow north and south gabled porches, and stepped triple lancet windows with hoodmoulds over. Arcaded lancets in 2 tiers with rose window over, in north and south walls of chapels, more richly decorated to south. Tower in eastern angle of chapel and chancel to south, octagonal with traceried bell chamber lights. Triple lancet east window, with quatrefoil panels between the lights. INTERIOR: single-span keeled roof over aisleless nave, with wrought-iron trusses springing from angel corbels. Western gallery, incorporating in screen C17 panelling removed from old school building (Library, Castle Gates (qv)). Pews and dado panelling installed in the 1890s. Steeply arched Early English chancel arch with clustered shafts now painted, but formerly of exposed black Purbeck marble and white stone. Sedilia and reredos in chancel, the reredos with inlaid coloured marble, and low relief in alabaster. Paired arches to chapels each side, one containing organ, the other a gallery. STAINED GLASS: south and east windows by Kempe, employing medieval narrative style for lives of saints, scenes from the history of the school.

Listing NGR: SJ4853112087