The Chapel is the venue for our weekly Worship every Tuesday, Friday and Sunday where the entire school join together in Morning Prayer. Recent years have seen some exciting changes to the format of our worship with a revival of regular Holy Communion Services and Evening Prayer, Compline and Taize Services. These acts of worship are an important expression and celebration of the Repton Community that is here today. They are an opportunity to bring to God our hopes and joys, our fears and sorrows. We particularly enjoy the occasions when Old Reptonians return to us to be married or have their children baptised in a setting that has been so formative to them in their lives.
We have Dr Vaughan to thank for the building of our Chapel. In August 1857 he preached a sermon to School in St Wystan's Parish Church about the importance in the life of a school of a private chapel- "a sanctuary of its own, dedicated to its exclusive use as a little section of the Universal Church of Christ". In 1858, under the Headmastership of Dr Pears, the present site was obtained and the foundation stone was laid by Lord Howe on August 26th. And so began the Chapel we now know so well.
Each generation has brought new improvements to the fabric of the building. In 1867 an apse was added, in 1880 the nave was extended and stained glass windows installed and in 1904 an organ screen was erected in memory of the Reptonians who fell in the Boer War. We continue that same devotion to Chapel today. In 2007 new altar frontals were commissioned which add a rich colour and vitality to the Sanctuary. These, along with a new Tabernacle, were dedicated by the Bishop of Gloucester during our 450th anniversary celebrations.
The Revd. Adam Watkinson with pupils