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The most dramatic alteration to the original, Tudor court however remains the Victorian amendment of the north range, which involved the demolition of the original mediaeval chapel and the construction of a new, far larger set of buildings in the 1860s.
The polychromatic school chapel, new quadrangle, Temple Reading Room, Macready Theatre and Gymnasium were designed by the well-known Victorian Gothic revival architect William Butterfield in 1875, and the smaller Memorial Chapel was dedicated in 1922.
An early wooden bridge over the Looe river was in place by 1411 this burned down and was replaced by the first stone bridge, completed in 1436 and featuring a chapel dedicated to St Anne in the middle ( the current bridge, a seven-arched Victorian bridge, was opened in 1853 ).
His classical interior was insufficiently emphatic for the tastes of militant Victorian churchmen, and between 1864 and 1866 the chapel was redecorated by William Burges.
Here too all parts were to be made available for the burial of any person, regardless of religious creed, making Abney Park Cemetery the only Victorian garden cemetery in Britain with " no invidious dividing lines " and a unique nondenominational chapel ( see the architecture of William Hosking ).
The north west corner is dominated by its Victorian Gothic style chapel by the architects George Frederick Bodley and Thomas Garner which has an interesting collection of pre-Raphaelite style paintings by John Roddam Spencer Stanhope and stained glass by William Morris.
His biographer Ian Parrott records that Philip loathed Eton, " with its hearty adolescent bawling of Victorian hymns in an all-male college chapel ".
A church is known to have existed in the area in 1100 although it has been rebuilt at least once and the chapel still stands, in the churchyard of the Victorian St Andrew's and is the oldest ecclesiastical building in Merseyside still in regular use for worship but in 1756 the mediaeval nave of Maghull Chapel was pulled down with a Roman Catholic dual-purpose school-chapel opening in 1890 near Massey's Barn.
Victorian restoration work of the chapel found signs that a beacon may have adorned the roof.
" Immediately inside the gate is a Victorian chapel, now used as an office.
Two massive steam-driven beam engines were built by Renshaw's of Stoke-on-Trent during 1897-1898 ; and a brick building, resembling a Victorian chapel in style, was constructed in 1900 to house them.
Thus, in sharp contrast to the chapel dedicated to St. Gregory and St. Augustine which contains vibrant mosaics, the chapel of the Holy Souls employs a more subdued, almost funereal style, decoration with late Victorian on a background of silver.
The old grammar school in the town, which later became a chapel, is now an exhibit of a Victorian period schoolroom, part of the Story Of Mann.
The parish church in the village St John the Baptist is unusual in that it consists of two buildings: the ancient chapel of ease built in the 12th century which includes a window depicting Oliver Cromwell and John Hampden as ' champions of liberty ', and the more modern Victorian construction that was built of red brick in 1867.
Its closest neighbour, the neo-Gothic Victorian chapel, built in 1863, stands looking across at St. Oswald ’ s Maes-y-llan battlefield, now the School ’ s extensive playing-fields.
The college boathouse is situated within the grounds, as is the Victorian college chapel.
It has a mixture of Victorian buildings ( such as Old College, right, which includes a chapel built by some of the original students ) and modern buildings ( such as the Students ' Union ).
Also of note are the Victorian swimming baths building, and the public library which was converted from a Methodist chapel, but was closed in 2012 as part of Liverpool City Council's cost cutting measures.
Other Victorian arrivals in the village were a Methodist chapel, built in 1868 and converted to a private house in 1985 ; and a school – this was opened in 1867, replaced in 1875, closed in 1971 and demolished in 1973.
It is the chapel of The Royal Victorian Order.
Failand once had a chapel of ease, but now has the Victorian Church of St Bartholomew ; the village is relatively modern.
Its name derives from a chapel that once stood on the site ; however, in Victorian times this was converted into housing for local quarry workers, who mined limestone on the island until 1851.

Victorian and building
The building underwent two Victorian restorations and another in 1930.
An eminent example of Victorian civic architecture, the building was constructed between 1882 and 1888 to a competition winning design by Glaswegian architect William Young ( originally from the nearby town of Paisley ).
The Hereford Museum and Art Gallery, housed in a Victorian Gothic building and opened in 1874, presents artefacts, fine art, and decorative art associated with the local area.
The Victorian era saw the building of many major attractions including the Grand Hotel ( 1864 ), the West Pier ( 1866 ) and the Palace Pier ( 1899 ).
Later it fell into disrepair, but was renovated when Jack Woolley leased the mansion to Landmark Trust ; Architect Lewis led the restoration of the building to its Victorian splendour.
The Victorian building was destroyed by fire in June 1966.
Under Tree, however, Her ( later His ) Majesty's Theatre was most famous for its work with Shakespeare, building an international reputation as the premier British playhouse for his works during the Edwardian era, which had for so long belonged to Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre during the Victorian period.
Forty years later Sir Henry Tate who was a sugar magnate and a major collector of Victorian art, offered to fund the building of the gallery to house British Art on the condition that the State pay for the site and revenue costs.
In that year it gained a carrier licence, offering long distance services to the residential market and building communications networks for the South Australian and Victorian governments.
The arches in the rest of the building are Gothic, following medieval rebuilding and extensions, and Victorian era restoration.
Whereas Scott's work had clearly been in sympathy with the existing building, Grimthorpe's plans reflected the Victorian ideal.
The Victorian building was built on the corner of Brook and Oak Streets by the firm of Clark and Loomis, which also designed the Speed Art Museum and Waverly Hills Sanatorium.
Butterfield's church of All Saints, Margaret Street, London, was, in the view of Henry-Russell Hitchcock, the building that initiated the High Victorian Gothic era.
After a major fire in 1978 destroyed the Victorian and Edwardian additions to the building, restoration work was completed in 1984.
Most of the area remained agricultural until the mid nineteenth century, the most notable building of the time being the ' Brockley Jack ' ( since rebuilt ), a large Victorian public house which today houses the Brockley Jack Theatre.
During the Victorian era and into the early 20th century, Carshalton was known for its lavender fields, but the increasing land demand for residential building put an end to commercial growing.
Now an historic house museum, the building features a period kitchen, and house details from the Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian eras.
All Saints Church, West Dulwich ( Church of England ) alongside Rosendale Road is a Victorian Gothic building, originally intended to be the cathedral for south London.
Its later development as a passenger line led to the redevelopment in the 1880s of the medieval core of the village on Homerton High Street with Victorian dwellings and public houses, and speculative building on the lands either side of Homerton High Street.
* All Saints ' Church-An astonishing Victorian Gothic building in West Dulwich, originally intended to be the cathedral for south London.
Damage to housing stock in Wimbledon and other parts of London during the Second World War led to the final major building phase when many of the earlier Victorian houses built with large grounds in Wimbledon Park were sub-divided into apartments or demolished and replaced with apartment blocks.
In October 2008 a fire in the Woolwich Triangle area left the upper storeys of an empty Victorian shop building severely damaged, contributing to the decline of the area.
The building originally had a smaller federal style cupola but was later replaced with a late Victorian clock tower in the second Empire style.
The King's Head Tavern, now a Victorian building with a theatre, has remained on the same site, opposite the parish church, since 1543.
By October 1969 Norman was a regular performer at the Salt Company, " a combination of late Victorian and early Salvation Army ", which held concerts on weekends in the upstairs loft of a converted apartment building in downtown Hollywood.

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