Shrewsbury School Chapel

Shrewsbury School Chapel is a school chapel built in 1887, designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield. It is constructed from rock-faced red sandstone with gold sandstone dressings and features a plain tiled roof. The chapel includes a nave with a western narthex and a chancel, which has chapels on both the north and south sides.

The exterior showcases a west front with a narthex that connects two polygonal turrets. It features a plate-traceried triple-stepped lancet window with Y-tracery in the outer lights and low relief roundels in the spandrels. The nave is divided into five bays by buttresses and has shallow gabled porches on the north and south sides. The stepped triple lancet windows are topped with hoodmoulds. The north and south walls of the chapels have arcaded lancets arranged in two tiers, with a rose window above, and the southern chapel is more richly decorated. There is an octagonal tower at the eastern angle of the chapel and chancel, which has traceried bell chamber lights. The east window consists of three lancets with quatrefoil panels between them.

Inside, the chapel features a single-span keeled roof over the aisleless nave, supported by wrought-iron trusses that spring from angel corbels. A western gallery incorporates a screen made from 17th-century panelling that was removed from an old school building. Pews and dado panelling were added in the 1890s. The chancel arch is steeply arched in the Early English style, with clustered shafts that were originally made of exposed black Purbeck marble and white stone but are now painted. The chancel contains sedilia and a reredos, the latter featuring inlaid coloured marble and low relief in alabaster. Each side of the chancel has paired arches leading to the chapels, one of which houses the organ and the other contains a gallery.

The stained glass in the south and east windows was created by Kempe and employs a medieval narrative style, depicting the lives of saints and scenes from the history of the school.