In both cases the architectural space can remove the individual from the trials and tribulations of everyday life and give opportunity to dwell on aspects of philosophy - ecclesiastical or secular.

These walls each feature specific elements of the building: the Ante-chapel and Vestry (northern), Sanctuary (western), Pipe Organ (southern) and Choir with Bell Tower (eastern).

The building also pays subtle homage to traditional sacred architectural forms with the inclusion of features such as blind arcading and a double-storey Ante-chapel in the northern wall.

Clear glass above the sanctuary recess, invisible from the nave, floods the wall above the reredos with natural light; this is symbolic of humankind's continual search for the "higher things".

Melbourne-born artist Leonard French is best known for his monumental murals, tapestries and stained glass mosaic windows which "grace the façades, ceilings and walls of many leading cultural, educational and spiritual edifices in Australia and overseas.

However, his esteem for the French painter Fernand Léger gave rise to his lifelong commitment to the philosophy of art at the service of the common man, and the idea of the struggle and spiritual journey of a hero - a quest which could be applied to all individuals in search of a path through life.

[5] Many of the French's artworks are drawn from literary sources, including The Bible, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and most notably, Evelyn Waugh’s biography of the 16th-century English martyr Edmund Campion: eternal legends imbued with the notion of the struggle and spiritual journey of a hero.

[6] The Haileybury Chapel features over fifty stained glass mosaic windows of varying shapes and sizes, rich in symbolism and historical reference.

[7] His emblematic use of recognisable iconographic symbols – including the Celtic Cross, circle, dome, serpent, bird and fish – together with a rich layering of paint and glazing, coalesce to form complex works of art of great depth and beauty.