Lancing College, Great School

Lancing College's Great School is a school hall and classroom blocks built between 1877 and 1881 by R H Carpenter in the Gothic style. The building is constructed from knapped flint with Sussex sandstone dressings and features tiled roofs. The central large hall has a clerestorey and a gabled roof, flanked by classroom blocks that have five gables on each side, with two storeys on the east and one storey on the west.

On the east elevation, the first floor has ten windows with paired trefoliated heads and a quatrefoil motif in the spaces between, along with an oculus between each pair of windows. There is sandstone coping and saddlestones, a band above the windows, and diamond-shaped decorative friezes near the apex of the gables. The ground floor features pointed arched openings to an arcade, with paired windows behind that have Caernarvon arches and plank doors.

The west elevation mirrors the east, with ten windows featuring paired trefoliated heads and similar sandstone dressings. Each side has four large two-tier clerestorey windows with trefoliated heads, quatrefoil motifs, and buttresses beneath decorated half-hipped gables topped with iron finials. The roof ridge is adorned with cresting. Inside the Great Hall, there is a boarded oak roof with a crown post structure, panelled walls, and an end gallery.