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:
Two barrows 500m NE of Octagon Farm: part of a Neolithic and Bronze Age mortuary complexRemains of the George InnOakley BridgePaved ford 400yds (366m) SE of Kempston ChurchManor Farm moated siteBarrow and mortuary enclosure 1100m WNW of Octagon Farm: part of a Neolithic and Bronze Age mortuary complexMavourn moated site, with associated fishponds, enclosures and deserted settlement siteYarl's Wood hermitage and moated siteSite of Newnham PriorySettlement site N of Chapel End FarmMedieval lime kiln off Castle LaneMortuary enclosure 1200m north-west of Octagon Farm: part of a Neolithic and Bronze Age mortuary complexThree barrows and a rectilinear enclosure 1000m NNW of Octagon Farm: part of a Neotlithic and Bronze Age mortuary complexMowsbury Hill: slight univallate hillfort and medieval moated siteA barrow 400m north of Octagon Farm: part of a Neolithic and Bronze Age mortuary complexMoated site with garden earthworks at Bletsoe CastleMortuary enclosure 900m NNW of Octagon Farm: part of a Neolithic and Bronze Age mortuary complexKempston Hardwick moated siteBedford BridgeMotte castle in Exeter Wood, 780m south east of Wood FarmBromham BridgeOakley churchyard crossThe Moot HallElstow Manor House (Remains of)Neolithic and Bronze Age mortuary complex 600m NW of Octagon FarmOval barrow 60m west of Ranworth Walk, 650m south west of Westfield SchoolBedford Castle motte and baileyEnclosures E of East End FarmShrunken medieval village at Milton Ernest, BedfordshireA barrow 1000m NW of Octagon Farm: part of a Neolithic and Bronze Age mortuary complexSite discovered by aerial photography S of village.
