Description

DUIICEORCE ROAD
1.
5397
(East Side)
Chapel at Rugby School
(Formerly listed in
Lawrence Sheriff Street)
SP 5074 NW 2/66 11.10.49.

I GV

2.
1872 by William Butterfield in red brick with stone dressings. Tall nave, chancel
and wide transepts. Low narrow aisles rebuilt 1897. South-east tower has octagonal
belfry with pyramidal roof.
Interior with elaborate painted roof contains canopied stalls to west end, 1882
mosaic to east end apse, C16 stained glass from Normandy and Netherlands, C19 stained
glass by Willement, Hardman and Morris.
Monuments with effigies to Dr James 1824 by Chantry, Dr Wool 1833 by R Westmacott
the Younger, Dr Arnold 1844 by John Thomas, Dean Stanley 1884 by Boehm. Many memorial
tablets to famous Rugbeians, including Arthur Hugh Clough, Rupert Brooke, etc.
Grated partly for historical interest.

The Chapel and War Memorial Chapel at Rugby School form a group with New and old Quad
Buildings. School House and Doctor's Wall at Rugby School Lawrence Sheriff Street.

Listing NGR: SP5021574961

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17528253

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey