The Chapel’s History – A Timeline
The timeline below highlights the key stages of the Chapel’s history
25 April 2022
Completed Chapel is reopen to visitors again
23 April 2022
Dedication of the completed Chapel
November 2020
Completion of the main structure
March 2020
Work commences on site
January 2020
The first delivery of stone for the completion of the Lancing College Chapel porch arrives on site.
November 2019
Masonry work begins off site
September 2019
Contract signed with Chichester Stoneworks
September 2019
Launch of the public campaign
2019
Neil Holland's impression of Michael Drury's design to complete the west wall, to be built by 2021
2018
Michael Drury's design for a three-arched porch
2017
Michael Drury commissioned to produce new scheme
2017
Blind tracery in west arches
2011
Sir Robert Woodard lays a foundation stone
1992
North porch dedicated in memory of Basil Handford
1986
Organ reinstated on west gallery
1978
West wall and rose window dedicated
1950s
Artist's impression of Dykes Bower's solution, seen from the north-west.
1947
Stephen Dykes Bower's design for the west end
1946
The Friends of Lancing Chapel founded
1930s
Tapestries designed by Amy Chilston and woven on the William Morris looms for the apse
1928
Sir George Oatley's design for the west end
1921-26
War Memorial Cloister built and dedicated
1920s
Installation of Gilbert Scott stall canopies and other furnishings
1911
Chapel dedicated
c1911
West end boarded up
1910
Laying the floor of the Chapel
1905-1910
Chapel nearing completion except for the west end link to the school
1890-1900
Windows, buttresses and roofs being constructed from east to west
1885
RH Carpenter's & W Slater's design for the west end
1875
Crypt taken into use as school chapel1875
1868
Chapel Foundation Stone laid
1848
S Mary & S Nicolas College founded by The Revd Nathaniel Woodard
