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Shove Memorial Chapel was the gift of Eugene Percy Shove, a Colorado Springs industrialist. The designer was John Gray, a prominent architect of Pueblo, Colorado. He designed the Chapel as part of an architectural competition. Its Norman Romanesque style was inspired by the Winchester Cathedral in England. The main building material was Indiana limestone, but stones from several famous English churches -- Winchester Cathedral, Gatton Church, King's College Chapel at Cambridge, and the Christ Church dining hall at Oxford -- were placed in the building October 17, 1930, along with the cornerstone.
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 Postcard of Shove Chapel
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The tower bells were cast in England and brought by steamer to New York. The great bell (with a tone of G sharp) and four smaller bells were transferred there to a ship that sailed to San Francisco by way of the Panama Canal. The bells then made their way to Colorado Springs on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.
The chancel rose window portrays the seven liberal arts -- grammar, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music -- and the three faculties of the medieval universities -- law, medicine, and theology. The two rose windows in the transept represent science and the humanities.
