By the mid-1920s the Chapel had become too small to accommodate the increasing numbers of students (at that time about 315 in number). Ralph Adams Cram, Vaughan’s successor as the foremost interpreter of the Gothic style, was engaged. He proposed an operation similar to that by which the Old Chapel had once been enlarged. The structure would be cut in two at the choir; the sanctuary and altar would be moved so as to allow the insertion of two new bays. Along with this provision for greater length would go such additions as a new choir room and a chantry designed to receive the war memorial.