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28-528: The Woodard Corporation has schools in both the independent (fee paying) and maintained sectors. It is the largest group of Church of England schools in England and Wales. The corporation owns 21 independent schools and is affiliated with 22 schools, both state, academy and independent. The flagship school of the Woodard Corporation is Lancing College , founded by Nathaniel Woodard in 1848, while

56-544: A commission in 1874 for a complete church at Enfield, St Michael and All Angels. built in ragstone in a fourteenth-century Gothic style, with a clerestory with double lancet windows . The altar in the chancel is recessed into polygonal vaulted apse in the Byzantine style with stone reredos depicting the Crucifixion . Carpenter's plans could not be carried out completely, due to lack of funds. Carpenter

84-495: A cost of £14,850 per term; 35% are day pupils, at a cost of £10,150 per term. Occasional overnight stays are available to day pupils at an additional cost of £74 per night. The school is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference . Girls were first admitted in 1970. The school is dominated by a Gothic revival chapel, and follows a high church Anglican tradition. The College of St Mary and St Nicolas (as it

112-516: A number of schools in the English Academy system. Woodard Schools push for a strong religious teaching within, with an emphasis on biblical studies. Students should conform to Christianity and teachings of the Bible.: Lancing College Lancing College is a public school (English private boarding and day school ) for pupils aged 13–18 in southern England , UK. The school

140-487: A quadrangle, terraces and playing fields towards the hills of Wales. In 1884 Carpenter and Ingelow received an important commission to design what is today known as the Chapel Court at Jesus College, Cambridge . Working with red brick, the court with a central castellated tower blends harmoniously with its surroundings. In 1888 the partnership unsuccessfully entered the competition to design Cathedral of St. John

168-665: Is located in West Sussex , east of Worthing near the village of Lancing , on the south coast of England. Lancing was founded in 1848 by Nathaniel Woodard and educates c. 600 pupils between the ages of 13 and 18; the co-educational ratio is c. 60:40 boys to girls. Girls were admitted beginning in 1971. The first co-ed, Saints’ House, was established in September 2018, bringing the total number of Houses to 10. There are 5 male houses (Gibbs, School, Teme, Heads, Seconds) and 4 female houses (Fields, Sankeys, Manor, Handford). The college

196-552: Is perhaps best remembered for his recreation of Holdenby House . This large country house in Northamptonshire had originally been built in the sixteenth century by Sir Christopher Hatton , Lord Chancellor to Queen Elizabeth I ; one of the largest and grandest houses in England, it had been subsequently sold to James I and became a royal palace. Following the Civil War it had been mostly demolished. In 1873 Carpenter

224-703: Is situated on a hill which is part of the South Downs , and the campus dominates the local landscape. The college overlooks the River Adur , and the Ladywell Stream, a holy well or sacred stream within the College grounds, has pre-Christian significance. Woodard's aim was to provide education "based on sound principle and sound knowledge, firmly grounded in the Christian faith," and the discipline of

252-534: Is the largest school chapel in the world. The eastern organ is a two-manual mechanical organ built by the Danish firm Frobenius and was installed and voiced in situ in 1986. That year also marked the completion of the rebuild of the four-manual Walker organ at the west end of the chapel – both of which were showcased in the opening concert by the American organ virtuoso, Carlo Curley . A stained-glass window

280-591: The Gothic buildings of Denstone College (1868–73) The school buildings, hall, chapel and war memorial are all listed Grade II. The school's chapel was added in 1879–87 by Carpenter and Ingelow in a late 13th-century Gothic style; it consists of a four bay nave with polygonal apse. Also in 1868, Carpenter started work on the ambitious Gothic chapel – with an internal height of 94 feet (29 m) – at Lancing College in Sussex. Work continued long after Carpenter's death;

308-480: The brickwork in the facade was also completed as were the chapel's buttresses. Lancing College Chapel was closed to visitors during the coronavirus pandemic and, subsequently, during the construction of the west end porch and refurbishment work on the school kitchens opposite, reopening to the public on 25 April 2022. During World War II , students were evacuated to Downton Castle in Herefordshire . Both

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336-538: The chief assistant in the practice, Benjamin Ingelow. Carpenter worked as architect to Ardingly College following the school's purchase of a 196-acre (0.79 km ) site at Ardingly in 1862. He was taken into partnership with Slater in 1863 and was admitted ARIBA on 15 June of that year, his proposers being Slater, Mair and the St Pancras surveyor Henry Baker. In partnership with William Slater he designed

364-439: The former palace. In 1887 Carpenter returned to Holdenby to design the great panelled entrance hall. It is at Holdenby, away from the ecclesiastical Gothic, that Carpenter's versatility of style as an architect can truly be seen. By 1875 Carpenter was again working in Northamptonshire, this time working in a thirteenth-century design for the new chancel at the church of St Margaret Luddington-in-the-Brook . A large project in 1877

392-400: The foundations of the building, completed five years later. One report states that the foundations are 60 feet (18 metres) deep. The structure itself would not be fully completed until long after Woodard's death in 1891, although the tower at the west end that had been planned in the 1800s would not be built as of 2024;. the tower had been intended to raise the height to 100 metres. The apex of

420-515: The largest school is The Littlehampton Academy , with over 1,500 students. From 1 January 2014, Broadwater Manor School in Worthing was also owned by Lancing College and this group. '... till the Church educates and trains up the middle classes, she can never effectually educate the poor' Nathaniel Woodard, That One Idea , by Leonard and Evelyn Cowie Woodard Schools are the lead sponsors of

448-641: The main college and the prep school buildings were requisitioned by the Admiralty and became part of the Royal Navy shore establishment HMS  King Alfred . In 1856 Lancing created its own code of football which (unlike other school codes) was regarded as a means of fostering teamwork. Coordinates : 50°50′47″N 00°18′15″W  /  50.84639°N 0.30417°W  / 50.84639; -0.30417 Richard Carpenter (architect) Richard Herbert Carpenter (July 1841 – 18 April 1893)

476-422: The prefect's cane. However John Dancy was appointed headmaster in 1953 to improve academic standards, which had taken second place to prowess in sport. Lancing was the first of a family of more than 30 schools founded by Woodard. Other schools include Ardingly College , Bloxham School , The Cathedral School, Denstone College , and Ellesmere College . Roughly 65% of pupils are either full or weekly boarders, at

504-403: The projected tower was never built; plans to complete the west end have since been resurrected and as at 2013 were at the fundraising stage. Designs for the existing school buildings had been begun by his father in 1848, although construction did not begin until 1854. In 1872 Carpenter was responsible for the design of the pulpit at Jesus Church, Forty Hill , Enfield, Middlesex . This led to

532-436: The roof of the aisles double flying buttresses connect the buttresses below to the walls of the main building. Balustrade of pointed arcading. Slate roof. Prior to July 1911, the college had worshipped in the finished crypt since that was consecrated in 1875. Before the final completion of the chapel in the 21st century, additional work was completed over the decades. As of May 1978, the structure contained among other things,

560-465: The tomb of the founder, three organs, and a rose window designed by Stephen Dykes Bower , completed in 1977, and the largest rose window built since the Middle Ages, being 32 ft in diameter. It was added by James Longley Construction, a building company which operated from 1863 to 2020, and was also involved in the building of Christ’s Hospital near Horsham. Some reports state that the structure

588-426: The vaulting rises to 27.4 m (90 ft). It was designed by R. H. Carpenter and William Slater , and is built of Sussex sandstone from Scaynes Hill. By 18 July 1911, the upper chapel had been built and went into use after its consecration and dedication to St Mary and St Nicholas; this phase of the work was completed through the efforts of Woodard’s son, William. "Despite a shortage of funds, he turned all

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616-522: The vaults and oversaw the completion of all but two bays of the main interior ..." according to a 2024 report. The listing by Historic England provides this more specific summary of the Gothic Revival upper chapel at that time: The main portion of the Chapel was finished in 1911. It consists of an apse and 10 bays. Central portion with aisles. Great buttresses flank the windows of the aisles. Over

644-739: Was an English Gothic Revival architect. Carpenter was born 1841 in St Pancras , England, the son of the tractarian architect Richard Cromwell Carpenter and his wife Amelia. He is best known for his collaboration with Benjamin Ingelow ; their architectural practice, founded by Carpenter's father and based in Marylebone , London, was responsible for the construction or of many ecclesiastical properties. Carpenter attended Charterhouse School and began his architectural career working with his late father's partner William Slater . Following Slater's death in 1872, Carpenter went into partnership with

672-407: Was commissioned in memory of Trevor Huddleston OL, and consecrated by Desmond Tutu on 22 May 2007. The west wall of the chapel was built between 1960 and 2017. That area had remained bricked up since 1978 when bricks replaced the previous corrugated iron facade. In 2019, permission was obtained for building the western three-arched porch that had been designed by Michael Drury. During this phase,

700-483: Was employed by the owner Viscountess Clifden to recreate the Elizabethan house incorporating the little that remained of it. Although Carpenter's house was only an eighth the size of the former palace, the completed Elizabethan-style mansion was an architectural success. The many gabled stone new house, with tall ornamental chimneys and mullioned windows was approached through the original tripartite arches of

728-614: Was originally known) in Shoreham-by-Sea was intended for the sons of upper middle classes and professional men; in time this became Lancing College, moving to its present site in 1857. The school's buildings of the 1850s were designed by the architect Richard Cromwell Carpenter , with later ones by John William Simpson . In 2003, it was one of fifty of the country's leading independent schools which were found guilty of running an illegal price-fixing cartel which had allowed them to drive up fees for thousands of parents. Each school

756-413: Was required to pay a nominal penalty of £10,000 and all agreed to make ex-gratia payments totalling three million pounds into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period in respect of which fee information was shared. The college Chapel is a Grade I Listed building that was finally completed in 2022. The first phase of its construction began in 1863 with the installation of

784-577: Was the full scale restoration of the church of St Mary the Virgin at Goudhurst , Kent. This included the building of a vestry and a large part of the south aisle. Carpenter, working in 1865 with William Slater, who had been in partnership with his father, had prepared the plans for an earlier restoration of this church. In 1879 Carpenter and Ingelow received the commission to create the topographical crown of Nathaniel Woodard's schools – Ellesmere College with its "H" plan and gothic facade looking out over

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