Lady Margaret Hall Chapel, University of Oxford

Giles Gilbert Scott’s 1931-4 work at Lady Margaret Hall included a chapel which was built in 1933 in the fashionable Byzantine style of that decade.

It stands as a particularly well preserved example of Scott’s approach to liturgical planning. A central dome, which appears as an octagon from the exterior, intersects the chapel- Scott created an eastward visual emphasis by placing the organ and choir stalls at the west end, allowing an uninterrupted view of the apsidal east end and its ciborium.

Lutyens undoubtedly owed some debt of inspiration to Scott’s work at Lady Margaret Hall when he came to design the chapel at Campion Hall a year later in 1934.