The Chantry Chapel, Higham Ferrers.

I spent a very pleasant morning with a friend around St Mary’s Church and Chichele College in Higham Ferrers.
 
Near the West end of the church stands a beautiful little chapel referred to as either The Chantry Chapel or The Grammar School. It has generally been supposed that it was built as a Chantry, the dual use of such a building not being uncommon in medieval times. Popular tradition has suggested the Archbishop Henry Chichele, who was born in the town and died in 1443, left a legacy for its construction, but no written evidence has be found of this.
 

The building has been extensively restored and beneath the West window is an arcade of four small windows, probably designed to light an enclosed vestibule within. In 1974 these small windows at the West end were re-glazed, incorporating fragments of Victorian glass from Walsingham Parish Church, Norfolk destroyed by fire in 1963.