Chapel

The small blue-stone building was originally the stables and coach house for Downer House. When the College began in 1925 the buliding was used as a gymnasium and later it became the College library.

In 1977, an old Collegian, Hugh G B Wilkinson, redesigned the building with the construction carrried out by Wilkinson personally. The first floor joists of the stable were transfomred into the balustrade, the stairs (to the loft), the lectern, the main door, window frames and chairs. There is a huge granite altar that was quarried at Black Hill, near Cambrai in South Australia. The rose window above the altar was designed and made by Cedar Prest and given to the College in 1979 by Revd Peter Osborn, in memory of his father, Professor T G B Osborn, a Professor of Botany at the Universities of Adelaide, Sydney and Oxford and one of the founders of St Mark's College.

The Chapel is used today for voluntary services and discussion groups as well as a place for quiet reflection and personal prayer. It is also used by musicians as a music practice space and for choir practice.

Chapel inside photo