Harrow School Chapel is a Grade II* listed building in the Harrow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1968. Chapel. 3 related planning applications.

Harrow School Chapel

WRENN ID
weathered-moulding-gold
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Harrow
Constituency
Harrow West MP: Gareth Thomas (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 July 1968
Type
Chapel
Address
Harrow School Chapel, High Street
OS grid reference
TQ 153 873
Coordinates
51.57323, -0.33655
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Harrow School Chapel, built between 1854 and 1857 by Sir George Gilbert Scott, features knapped flint and ashlar walls in decorated Gothic and early English styles. The front has two large, differing gables. The layout includes a nave, chancel, a wide south aisle, a narrow north aisle, and chapels on both the north and south sides. Transepts and porches were added by Sir Aston Webb in 1902, and a small spine was placed over the west end of the roof in 1865. The interior is tall with a pentagonal apse and has dummy arcades below the windows on the north and east sides. There is a crypt chapel, a Vaughan Memorial by Onslow Ford, and a reredos by Sir A Blomfield. The stained glass was primarily created between 1857 and 1861 by E. Labords for Harrow School.

Local climate

Harrow School Chapel sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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