Chapel to former St Paul's College

This chapel was built in 1909-10 as part of the former St Paul’s College, and is now located on the University of Gloucestershire campus. It was designed by Hodgson Fowler. The building is constructed of coursed and dressed limestone with ashlar dressings, and has a plain tile roof. It is designed in the Eton and Kings Perpendicular-style tradition.

The chapel comprises a large eight-bay nave and a smaller two-bay chancel. It has a seven-light east window, two-light chancel windows, and five-light nave windows, all with cinquefoil heads and panel tracery. Tall, offset buttresses articulate each bay. A recessed entrance bay is located on the south side of the west end, featuring a doorway with a crocketed ogee arch. A crenellated turret is positioned at the south-west corner, with a rose window in its west gable above two two-light windows, which in turn are set above mullioned, cinquefoil-headed windows, lighting a narthex.

Inside, the interior displays a consistent design with rerearches throughout. It features Perpendicular shafts to the moulded arches and to the arch-braced supports of the roof, which is designed in a late medieval tradition with openwork spandrels and arch bracing to the collars and purlins. The glass is by Morris and Co., dating from 1934-5. Original features include a painted reredos and a fine west screen with integral carved stalls, cinquefoil-headed tracery, and coving to the balcony area, surmounted by an organ.

The architecture represents a consistent, high-quality design characteristic of the Eton and Kings tradition that groups well with the main College building by Daukes.