Chronicle Summer 2023

31 ST EDWARD’S CHRONICLE

13. The key to the Cowell Gates used by the Princess Royal when she opened them in 1939. The gates were designed by architect Harold Rogers, OSE.

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14. The Register showing the enrolment of Laurence Olivier in Michaelmas Term 1921. At this time the profession of each pupil’s father was recorded – G K Olivier was a priest. The School was originally established to educate the sons of clergymen. 15. The period work bell which hung outside the Work Block from 1925-1995. The cipher of King George V can be seen cast into the bronze at the top of the bell. 16. The original watercolour design for the Kenneth Grahame window in the Chapel. The window was completed in 1936 by Christopher Webb, one of the finest stained glass designers of the 20th century. It is illustrated with a scene from Grahame’s childhood memoir, Dream Days … ‘the sky was a feckless blue, the flags danced in the breeze … I was through the town by this time and out on the other side of the hill, where I had always wanted to be; and sure enough, there was the harbour, all thick with curly ships …’. Grahame’s name is flanked by snake’s head fritillaries, the county flowers of Oxfordshire.

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