Wycliffe College Chapel Spire

Wycliffe College chapel spire is a tower with a spire built in 1921 for Wycliffe College. It is constructed of ashlar limestone and coursed and squared rubble at the lower stage. The tower is two stages high, with the lower stage featuring angle buttresses that have gabled tops. On the east side, there is a recessed brass inscription memorial plate with a crocketed projecting hood, and a 2-light lancet window on the north side. The upper stage has two large 2-light louvred belfry openings with tracery on each face. Plain corner pilasters on the upper stage project upwards to form square pinnacles, each adorned with a trefoil panel and topped with spirelets, linked by small flying buttresses to the base of the octagonal spire. The top of the upper stage is octagonal with a crenellated parapet, and there is a circular clock face with a hoodmould on each face of the tower just below the crenellation. Small lucarnes are present on the cardinal faces of the spire. The attached chapel building is not of special interest. The tower and spire were added as a war memorial to replace a previous Methodist Church that was destroyed by fire in 1939, and the present chapel was rebuilt in 1952.