The Building of St Edward's School: A Chronology (1870 - 2020)

P AGE N O : 101 Houses on the Kendall Quad, improvement of office arrangements, extension of Music School and restoration of S6 to the Science Department (General Purposes, November, 1985). 1986 - A fresh Appeal launched to provide a Centre for teaching Art, Design, Technology and Mathematics led by the Chairman of Governors with former Warden Frank Fisher as President (Governors’ Meeting, November 1985) The new Chapel organ is ‘half-installed’ - full cost will be £57,000 (£233,700 today) and paid for by a private bequest to the School (Governors’ Meeting, November 1986). Finally fully operational by February 1987 (Governors’ Meeting, February 1987) Problems and delays with planning and design issues for new Maths and Design Buildings slowly being resolved (Governors’ Meeting, November, 1986). 1987 - Work starts on the Design Centre and new Maths Building ( Roger Schofield design ) with the ‘Topping Out’ ceremony on 27th May 1987. Completion expected at the beginning of the Autumn Term. Access road already constructed from South Parade and the Art School is moved into temporary home above old changing rooms (Summer 1987 Chronicle) Pre-tender estimated cost of the construction of the new C.D.T. Centre and Mathematics Block will be £900,000 (£3,564,000 today) (Governors’ Meeting, March 1987) The old Changing Rooms conversion will cost in the region of £50,000 (£198,000 today) ‘Further steps’ taken in raising funds for a Field Centre in memory of teacher David Howorth (Common Room) who had died in 1985 Appeal reaches £525,000 (£2,079,000 today) - overall target is £1,250,000 (£4,950,000 today) ‘Hutland’ (unlamented) on the northern perimeter disappears and old Changing Rooms transformed to provide new home for the Junior Common Room, as well as changing rooms for the Baths. Ground floor temporarily houses the Careers Room and Archives, which will move upstairs once the Art Department, now in temporary residence, moves to its own new home. This whole complex will be known as ‘The Sixth Form Centre’ from now on (Governors’ Meeting, July 1987) Old Department of Education & Model Railway Hut condemned as ‘unsafe and demolished’ Estimate for initial equipping of C.D.T. Centre will be £85,000 (£336,600 today) with an ongoing provision of £15,000 (£59,400 today) per annum going forward (Governors’ Meeting, February 1987) Six tenders received for the new set of buildings ranging from £1,051,250 to £1,222,400 (£4,161,906 to £4,840,704 today) - all tenders exceed the pre-tender estimate and need further investigation and negotiation (Governors’ Meeting, June 1987) Changes in the architects involved in the new complex made necessary due to the illness of Roger Schofield whose responsibilities will taken on by R. Deeming from the same company (Governors’ Meeting, November,1987) Future planning for the Development Plan includes the renovation of Sing’s and Field House, completion of Oakthorpe House, a girls’ hostel in 236/238 Woodstock Road, the purchase of a computer for the School’s financial and administrative control, the creation of additional individual practice rooms in the current craft workshops which will be vacated on completion of the C.D.T. Centre, expenditure on S6 to re-equip it as a Science Laboratory and the provision of outdoor all weather playing surface, the extension or rebuilding of the pavilion including new changing accommodation (General purposes, June 1987)