Chantry Chapel Of All Souls

The Chantry Chapel of All Souls, originally built as a school, was likely re-founded by Archbishop Henry Chichele in the early 15th century. It has been restored in the 20th century. The chapel is constructed from limestone ashlar and features a lead roof. It has a single-unit plan and is a single storey.

The south elevation includes three three-light windows with cusping and four-centred arch heads, with small doorways on either side, both having four-centred arch heads. The left doorway is decorated with leaf motifs in the spandrels. There are three-stage buttresses at the corners and between the windows, which end in crocketted pinnacles adorned with panel tracery. A moulded cornice with corbels shaped like leaves and flowers runs along the top, leading to an open castellated parapet decorated with verticals and diagonals featuring cusping. The roof is shallow gabled, and the east window has five lights with panel tracery and a four-centred arch head. The east elevation also has an open castellated parapet similar to the south, with a canopied niche that holds a statue and pinnacle at the apex. The north elevation mirrors the south but lacks doorways. The west elevation resembles the east, featuring a four-light square-headed window beneath the main east window, with a similar parapet and niche.

Inside, there is a staircase leading to the former rood loft on the first floor, with two doorways featuring four-centred arch heads. The original moulded roof beams were restored in the 20th century when a steeper pitched roof was replaced with the original pitch. A plank door set in a panelled lobby has a date of 1630 above it. The west window contains 20th-century stained glass roundels, and a tablet in the lobby commemorates the restoration by J. White Esq. in 1942. The chapel served as a Grammar School from 1542 to 1906 and was restored by Temple Moore in the early 20th century, later being re-dedicated as a chantry chapel in 1942.