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Line 67: The chapel was dedicated to St Mary and St Nicholas in July 1911, after part of the structure was built through the efforts of Woodard’s son, William. "Despite a shortage of funds, he turned all the vaults and oversaw the completion of all but two bays of the main interior ...". The college had worshipped in the finished crypt from the time it was consecrated in 1875. Before additional work was completed on the chapel over many later decades, the ~~chapel~~structure contained among other things, the tomb of the founder, three organs, and a rose window designed by [[Stephen Dykes Bower]], completed in 1977, and the largest rose window in England, being 32 ft in diameter. People acknowledge it as the largest school chapel in the world, despite the fact that there appears to be no study or survey publicly available that can confirm that. The eastern organ is a two-manual mechanical organ built by the Danish firm [[Frobenius Orgelbyggeri\|Frobenius]] and was installed and voiced ''in situ'' in 1986. That year also marked the completion of the rebuild of the four-manual [[J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd\|Walker]] organ at the west end of the chapel<ref>The History of the English Organ. Stephen Bicknell, Cambridge University Press, 1999</ref> – both of which were showcased in the opening concert by the American organ virtuoso, [[Carlo Curley]].

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