WELLINGTON School has launched an appeal to help restore its chapel built to honour former students killed in the First World War – in time for next year’s 100th anniversary of the end of the conflict.

Students who used to attend the school are being asked to raise £10,000 to repair the windows in the listed building.

Money left over from a previous appeal to restore the chapel ceiling has been used for remedial work on a number of windows but further funds are needed to complete the job.

Old Wellingtons Association chairman Caroline Heaton said: “After 80 years, six of the chapel windows required significant maintenance. Remedial maintenance work to three of the windows has been completed during the last two summers, with a further two more scheduled for work.”