Bedford School Chapel
Bedford School Chapel
Grade II* listed Bedford School Chapel was built in 1907, in the late Gothic Revival style by the architect George Frederick Bodley, one of the key 19th Century architects specialising in churches.
The chapel also contains what has been described as a ‘comprehensive collection’ of fixtures designed by Bodley before his death in 1907 - as the chapel was still under construction.
Built of English bond red brick with limestone dressing and a clay-tiled roof, Bedford School Chapel has a Nave with short-chancel, and interesting tower-porch and stair-turret to the southwest. The three-stage tower itself features single-light belfry windows and an embattled ashlar parapet.
Below the decorated, three-light window in the east-wall of the Chancel is a foundation stone dated 18th May 1907.
Created: 20 January 2023 Edited: 29 November 2023
Bedford School Chapel
Local History around Bedford School Chapel
There are some historic monuments around including:
Mortuary enclosure 1200m north-west of Octagon Farm: part of a Neolithic and Bronze Age mortuary complexOakley churchyard crossShrunken medieval village at Milton Ernest, BedfordshireMowsbury Hill: slight univallate hillfort and medieval moated siteElstow Manor House (Remains of)Bromham BridgeMotte castle in Exeter Wood, 780m south east of Wood FarmTwo barrows 500m NE of Octagon Farm: part of a Neolithic and Bronze Age mortuary complexSite discovered by aerial photography S of villageRemains of the George InnMedieval lime kiln off Castle LaneSite of Newnham PrioryBarrow and mortuary enclosure 1100m WNW of Octagon Farm: part of a Neolithic and Bronze Age mortuary complexA barrow 400m north of Octagon Farm: part of a Neolithic and Bronze Age mortuary complexKempston Hardwick moated siteBedford Castle motte and baileyNeolithic and Bronze Age mortuary complex 600m NW of Octagon FarmBedford BridgeOval barrow 60m west of Ranworth Walk, 650m south west of Westfield SchoolOakley BridgeThree barrows and a rectilinear enclosure 1000m NNW of Octagon Farm: part of a Neotlithic and Bronze Age mortuary complexSettlement site N of Chapel End FarmA barrow 1000m NW of Octagon Farm: part of a Neolithic and Bronze Age mortuary complexYarl's Wood hermitage and moated siteMavourn moated site, with associated fishponds, enclosures and deserted settlement siteManor Farm moated siteThe Moot HallMoated site with garden earthworks at Bletsoe CastleMortuary enclosure 900m NNW of Octagon Farm: part of a Neolithic and Bronze Age mortuary complexPaved ford 400yds (366m) SE of Kempston ChurchEnclosures E of East End Farm.
