List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: LANCING COLLEGE, THE CHAPEL
List Entry Number: 1286548
Location
LANCING COLLEGE, THE CHAPEL, COLLEGE DRIVE
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: West Sussex
District: Adur
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Lancing
National Park: SOUTH DOWNS
Grade: I
Date first listed: 12-Oct-1954
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 297259
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Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/01/2013
TQ 10 NE
2/8
12.10.54
LANCING
COLLEGE DRIVE
Lancing College, the
Chapel
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 Saynes 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.
Selected Sources
Books and journals'The Builder' in The Builder, (1868), 944-945
WebsitesWar Memorials Online, accessed 05/12/2016 from
https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/169352War Memorials Register, accessed 05/12/2016 from
http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/16575
Map
National Grid Reference: TQ 19608 06609
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