Chapel

The chapel at St. Peter's College, built between 1893 and 1894 by Sir T.G. Jackson, is a Grade II* listed building. It features banded English bond red and orange brick with limestone ashlar dressings and has a gabled roof covered with old tiles. Designed in the Late Gothic Revival style, the chapel includes a Perpendicular-style east window with terracotta foiled and blind tracery, flanked by shafts and topped with a finial of a crocketed ogee arch that continues into crocketed pinnacles. The east gable is adorned with a crenellated parapet made of brick and stone chequer work. A string course connects the offset corner buttresses and wall buttresses of the six-bay side walls, which have depressed ogee arches over four-light windows with elaborately traceried heads. The west gable wall and window mirror this design and feature a fine French Gothic-style bell turret. Access to the chapel is through a fine doorway located in the west bay, which leads from a cloister walk to the north.

Inside, the chapel boasts a magnificent 15th-century Flemish carved and gilded wood altarpiece, brought to St. Peter's College by its founder, Canon Sewell, in 1847. Terracotta trefoiled blind arches are present over the sedilia. Many interior fittings, including benches with cusped back-panels and the organ loft, were also transferred from the old chapel in Cologne in 1847. The chapel features a cusped tie-beam roof and includes monuments such as a Boer War memorial with figures of St. George and the Dragon, as well as an Elizabethan-style aedicule memorial to those who fell in the First World War. The east window is adorned with stained glass by Burlison and Gryls. The Flemish altarpiece is the most significant feature of the chapel, influencing the design and high position of the east window.