St Edward's School Oxford and the Great War 1914-1918

T HE S CHOOL Q UAD FROM THE L ODGE A RCH , PRE - WAR The main difference in these buildings from today was the ‘Beehive’ in the left foreground, demolished in 1931, which at this time housed a warren of small studies occupied by the Prefects ‘arranged like slices of a cake in a semi-circular building’ (Hill - School History 1962). The Quad (or the ‘Meads’) had originally been used as a sports field before being laid to the ornate lawns still seen today. During the Great War it was a field where sheep were fed and later crops were grown.