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The Memorial Chapel at Bishops.

The Chapel at Bishops, approximately 60 years ago! Not much has changed!
The Memorial Chapel at Bishops, a photo taken by Donald Bett Fraser (OD), in the 1960s.
The Memorial Chapel at Bishops, a photo taken by Donald Bett Fraser (OD), in the 1960s.

The Memorial Chapel at Bishops is one of the city's landmarks.  Canon Birt wanted a Chapel that would commemorate the fallen ODs of WWI as well as to seat the whole school in a single sitting, this was in 1926 and this is still so today.  The architecture for the building was Percy Walgate and the contractor was Joseph Rubbi.        

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