The Chapel Of The Apostles
 Since its dedication and consecration in October 2000, the Chapel of the Apostles has become the real and symbolic heart of seminary life at the School of Theology. It provides a special place for seminarians to worship during Eucharist and The Daily Office.
The Chapel of the Apostles is the first stand-alone worship space for the School of Theology since the seminary moved from St. Luke’s Chapel and St. Luke’s Hall in center campus to Hamilton Hall in 1983.
 The chapel was designed by the Arkansas architectural firm of (the late) E. Fay Jones and Maurice J. Jennings to blend with its natural setting and reflect the gothic tradition of Sewanee’s architecture.
The chapel seats 150 people.
The St. Paul’s organ was specially constructed for the chapel and installed February 2004.
The main chapel is a highly flexible, open basilica-shaped edifice that does justice to all elements of the Anglican worship tradition.
The cut-out revelations of the roof at either end, the texture of the over-lay slate roof, the dramatic 100-foot skylight, and the surrounding mantle of trees and natural landscaping anchor this building to its setting and purpose.
The cypress exterior of the chapel is surrounded by Sewanee sandstone walls. A plaza connects to Hamilton Hall.
Inside, amid handcrafted lighting, the cross bracing of the interlocking beams of Douglas fir rises 43 feet to create a ceiling of natural angles.
A small oratory, a place set apart for prayer, is located to one side of the narthex. Dedicated to the Virgin Mary, it also includes a reconciliation room.
A relic of St. Thomas Aquinas, one of the greatest theologians of Christianity, is encased in the altar.
 Construction company for the chapel was the Orion Building Corporation, Nashville, TN. The crew was directed by Maurice Jennings, project supervising architect; Tim Luppe, Orion’s project manager; Eugene Wall, construction superintendent; and Dan Henon, university project manager.
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