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

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School take 39 Stratfield Road off the market and it is now leased to a member of staff (Governors’ Meeting, October 2009). 2010 - New Martyrs Pavilion wins an Oxford Preservation Trust Award. 2011 - Stephen Jones appointed School’s thirteenth Warden Governors confirm the purchase of the ‘Jack FM Building’ on the Woodstock Road, to be completed by the end of June (Governors’ Meeting Minutes February 2011) First mention of a new girls Boarding House (Jubilee) (Governors’ Meeting minutes February 2011). 2012 - A new Boarding House for girls announced, to be called Jubilee House ( Nick Hardy, T.S.H. Architects design ) and due to open in September 2013 during the celebrations of the same name. It will be sited next to the Woodstock Road and budgeted at £4,000,000 (£6,600.000 today) and will be built by Faltham Construction. Planning application to Council Offices in March (Governors’ Meeting minutes June 2012 and General Purposes Committee Minutes June 2012) Richard Hayes, Estates Manager is quoted as saying that minor projects at the School absorb about £300,000 (495,000 today) -£325,000 (536,250 today) per annum (2011/2012 Chronicle) within a total budget of £1,500,000 (£2,475,000 today) per annum Plans for the new Music School on the site of the old and on part of the newly acquired Lemon Tree site. Cost estimated at £7,000,000 (£8,400,000 today), scheduled for completion in September 2016. Design by Tim Roland Architects . It will contain twenty Practice Rooms, seven Ensemble Rooms, three classrooms, a Recital/Rehearsal rooms, a Music Library, various offices and a Staff Room Phase 2 of the project also achieves planning permission. This covers a world-class Concert Hall for the City of Oxford facing the Woodstock Road - projected start for this phase is 2019 School Inspection held in June An Appeal launched this year seeks to fund the new Music School (cost estimate £6 million (£9,900,000 today) on the site of the old Ferguson Music School and partly on the newly acquired Lemon Tree Site ( previously the Red Lion Pub ), together with the acquired neighbouring Jack FM Local Radio Station. Governors; Meeting minutes June 2012). The ambitious plans of a 1000 seater Concert Hall on this site (estimated costs of £9 million) is later abandoned in 2016 The Fourth 50 years 2013 - Jubilee House opened officially during the Jubilee celebrations, built to the west of the Woodstock Road and to the south of Corfe House and to the east of Kendall House. Six of the eleven Boarding Houses now are situated on this side of the Woodstock Road Life Sciences Building open during Jubilee celebrations named after the main benefactor, positioned behind the Workblock School plans to build a Concert Hall on Lemon Tree/Jack FM sites now receiving wide local press coverage. Funding still an issue (Governors’ Meeting minutes March 2013)