Lancing College, the Chapel
Lancing College, the Chapel, College Drive
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1286548
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Lancing College, the Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- Lancing College, the Chapel, College Drive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1286548
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Lancing College, the Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- Lancing College, the Chapel, College Drive
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Lancing College, the Chapel, College Drive
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Adur (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lancing
- National Park:
- South Downs
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 19608 06609
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 2 December 2025 to correct a typo in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 10 NE
2/8
LANCING
COLLEGE DRIVE
Lancing College, the Chapel
12.10.54
I
Designed by R H Carpenter in 1868. The Master Builder was William Blackford Woodard, the third son of the founder, Nathaniel Woodard. It is built of stone from a quarry belonging to the College at Scaynes Hill in Sussex. C13 French Gothic style. The crypt, which is above ground, was built between 1871 and 1877 and served as the College Chapel until 1911. In 1882 foundations were laid for a tower (unbuilt) at the south-west corner of the building. The main portion of the Chapel was finished in 1911. It consists of an apse and 10 bays. Central portion with aisles. Great buttresses flank the windows of the aisles. Over the roof of the aisles double flying buttresses connect the buttresses below to the walls of the main building. Balustrade of pointed arcading. Slate roof. The west wall with its great rose window was completed between 1960 and 1975. Architect, S E Dykes-Bower. The stalls were designed by Sir Gilbert Scott in 1851 and moved here from Eton College Chapel in 1923. Nathaniel Woodard, the founder of the College was buried in the chapel in 1891 in a chantry-like tomb. So is his son, William Woodard.
The War Memorial Cloister on the south side was designed by Temple Moore and added in 1920-7. The whole is a particularly fine example of Gothic Revival building. Illustrated in the Builder pps 944-5 1868.
Listing NGR: TQ1961206608
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 6 December 2016.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 297259
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Builder in The Builder, (1868), 944-945
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 05/12/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/16575
War Memorials Online, accessed 05/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/169352
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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