Haileybury Chapel, Chapel in Keysborough, Melbourne, Australia
Haileybury Chapel is a church building at Haileybury College in Melbourne featuring four independent three-story brick walls. The interior is characterized by large glass panels and a timber ceiling with exposed wooden trusses.
The chapel was officially opened by Davis McCaughey, Governor of Victoria, on 18 October 1987. On 13 August 2000 it was named the David Bradshaw Chapel, after David M. Bradshaw, Headmaster of Haileybury from 1954 to 1973.
Leonard French's more than fifty stained glass mosaic windows draw on the Bible, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and Evelyn Waugh's biography of the martyr Edmund Campion. French also made the large reredos in the sanctuary, using symbols such as the Celtic Cross, circle, dome, serpent, bird and fish.
The chapel stands on the eastern side of Springvale Road in Keysborough, just south of the Cheltenham Road intersection, on the Haileybury College campus. Its acoustics suit musical performance, so recitals and services share the space. The four walls rise progressively, the northern lowest and the eastern, with the Bell Tower, highest.
The chapel's four brick walls rise in steps, the northern wall lowest and the eastern wall, which carries the Bell Tower, the highest. The sanctuary wall holds twelve small windows standing for the Twelve Apostles, and clear glass above the recess, unseen from the nave, lights the wall above the reredos.
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