Chapel At Aysgarth School

The Chapel at Aysgarth School is a school chapel that opened in 1890, designed by Moscrop and Clark of Darlington. The building features red brick in English garden wall bond with ashlar dressings and has a plain tile roof. It consists of a 2-bay nave and a 1-bay chancel, all in a single vessel. The nave has Perpendicular-traceried windows with three lights, while the chancel has two lights at a higher level, all with monolithic lintels. The east window is a notable 5-light basket-arched design. A roll-moulded band steps up around the chancel, and there is a bracketed eaves table and a roll-moulded ridge topped with a Celtic-cross finial.

At the north-west corner, a polygonal stair tower leads to the organ loft, featuring a plinth, stone upper stage with louvres, a cornice, and a recessed tiled spire with a knob finial, which was formerly taller. The foundation stone at the south-east corner bears the initials 'MH' for Mary Hales, wife of the school's founder, Rev. E. T. Hales, along with an eroded date.

Inside, the chapel has a decorative terrazzo floor and a marble altar base. The walls are panelled at the base with richly decorated stencil work above. A coved cornice with decorative bosses runs along the top, and the panelled waggon roof features decorative bosses in the chancel, where angels hold a shield with the college and school coats of arms of the founder above the chancel screen. Four windows contain fine stained glass by Henry Holiday, and there is also an enamel panel inset in the nave's south wall.

The high-quality woodwork, primarily by Robert Thompson, includes an open-traceried altar rail, seats with desks, panelled pews, and likely the delicate, arcaded chancel screen. The polygonal pulpit has a different style, featuring panels with arches, guilloche bands, fluted columns, and an egg and dart cornice. A wooden screen at the west end separates the chapel from the corridor and has seats against it under the coved organ loft, which houses an organ and decorative case by Abbot and Smith of Leeds. Access to the organ loft stair tower is from the corridor outside the chapel.