Thurmond Chapel is a Colonial Williamsburg-style building, constructed during the 1968-69 school year. It was granted to the William Woods campus as a gift by Sarah Thurmond Hermann, a 1935 graduate. Mrs. Hermann and her husband, Grover, donated the funds in memory of Mrs. Hermann’s mother, the late Amelia Thurmond. This beautifully designed 100-seat chapel offers an intimate setting for worship services for the university and community.  Two outstanding features of Thurmond Chapel are a Schlicker pipe organ, donated by the Parents' Association, and a digital Maas Rowe Carillon, made possible by a donation from the Grover Hermann foundation. A small prayer chapel adjoining the sanctuary was added on in 1969.