School Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1983. Chapel. 4 related planning applications.
School Chapel
- WRENN ID
- broken-gravel-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1983
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- School Chapel, Stowe, MK18 5EH
- OS grid reference
- SP 672 373
- Coordinates
- 52.03052, -1.02106
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The School Chapel at Stowe School is a basilican chapel built between 1927 and 1929 by Sir Robert Lorimer. It is constructed from ashlar stone and features a large Corinthian pedimented portico with steps at the south end. The flank walls have projecting bays at each end, adorned with Corinthian pilasters and carved spandrels above round-headed windows, with five windows in between and a balustraded parapet above.
Inside, there are seven arches on each side supported by fluted Ionic columns, which were taken from the Temple of Concord and Winged Victory. The sanctuary and the area under the ritual west gallery are decorated with carved and gilded early 18th-century cedar panelling, which was brought from the former chapel in the Mansion, along with the pulpit, lectern, and altar rails.
Local climate
School Chapel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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