Chapel, Bradfield College

The chapel at Bradfield College was built between 1890 and 1901, with later additions in 1901, and designed by John Oldrid Scott in a neo-Gothic style. It is constructed of knapped flint, brick, and Bath stone, featuring lacing courses, diaper work, chequer-work in the tower parapet and gable ends, and alternating tile and stone window heads and relieving arches. The roof is tiled, with a stack to the southwest and five transverse gables over the aisles to the north and south. The chapel comprises a nave, aisles, chancel, a north-east tower, and a south-east vestry.

The tower is of three stages and has a diagonal buttress to the north-east. It includes a string course with corner gargoyles to the parapet, which has battlemented corners, and a short pyramidal spire with louvred lucarnes on each face and a lead finial with weathervane. A half-octagonal newel turret rises to the second stage, featuring a hipped tile roof and cusped lancet windows on each stage, with a quatrefoil opening at the top to the east. The bell stage has two lancets on each face, flanking a central clock to the north, while the second stage has a two-light window to the north, and the first stage features a cusped ogee lancet window to the east.

The nave incorporates five three-light aisle windows to the north and south, featuring hoodmoulds, geometrical and reticulated tracery, and a cusped lancet at the west end of each aisle. A high-level doorway on the south-west is accessed by a bridge and has a chamfered arch, hoodmould, and boarded door with ironwork. A north-west doorway exhibits a cinquefoiled arch, hoodmould with carved stops, and a boarded door with good ironwork. A large six-light west window features geometrical tracery, with two pairs of triple cusped lancets below, and a small rectangular window in the gable end above.

The chancel has two bays and features two-light first-floor windows to the north and south with hoodmoulds and relieving arches. A two-light square-headed north window and a boarded door are located on the ground floor. The five-light east window incorporates geometrical tracery, a hoodmould with carved stops, and two two-light square-headed ground floor windows. The one-storey vestry to the south-east has a parapet and a single two-light window to the south.

The interior of the chapel exhibits five-bay aisle arcades with circular black marble piers, moulded bases and capitals, chamfered arches, hoodmoulds, and carved stops. It also includes a three-bay arcaded chancel and rich carving, including ballflower ornament. Reused 17th-century panelling is present at the east end.