Pitt Chapel School

Pitt Chapel School is a building that served as both a school and chapel, constructed in 1858 by architect W. Butterfield for Charlotte Yonge, an author from Otterbourne, and John Keble, the Vicar of Hursley. The structure is made of rubble flint with galleting, featuring brick bands and brick and stone dressings, topped with an old plain tile roof and a weather-boarded porch. It is a single-cell building with five narrow bays, a porch located at the southwest, and a vestry to the northwest. The building has a brick plinth, and the eastern end showcases a three-light trefoiled stone window set in a brick arch, along with an iron cross on the gable. Stepped gabled brick buttresses on the north and south walls indicate the ends of the chancel. In the southern central bays, there is a two or three-light pointed window with both brick and stone dressings. The south porch, built on low brick walls, features a gabled roof with a pointed archway and a king post above. Inside the porch, there is a pointed south door. The western end includes a two-light pointed window with a quatrefoil above it, and it is topped by a hipped bellcote. The northern outshot vestry has pointed lancets and a large brick stack with offsets. Inside, the building contains contemporary furnishings and an arch-braced roof that rises from a moulded wall plate, with braces extending from the principal rafter to the purlin, creating the appearance of arcading above the wall plate.