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

P AGE N O : 54 The Memorial Buildings and new additions adjoining same (including Class Rooms, Masters’ Rooms, Music Room, Matron’s Room, Bathrooms, Lavatory Accommodation, Dormitories (130 Beds), Housekeeper’s Quarters, Prefects’ Rooms etcetera. The Lodge (including Porter’s Living Accommodation, Two Masters’ Rooms, the Bursary and the Clerk’s Office. The Science Buildings (including Laboratories for Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Stores Class Rooms etcetera. The Subway leading from the main School to the Sports Ground, Pavilion, Racquets Courts, Outdoor Swimming Pool. A detached Dwelling House known as ‘The Hollies’ used as bedroom accommodation for the female staff of the School, adjoining this on the west is a yard with Garage, Carpenter’s Office and Workshop (with rooms over) two Cottages and at the rear a garden. Corfe House situated on the West side of the Woodstock Road comprising a detached residence of substantial brick construction with tiled roof, together with out-buildings and garden Additionally, The Sports Grounds, Playing Fields and additional land on the West Side of the Woodstock Road immediately opposite the School and approached by a passage under the Woodstock Road. In total amounting to 79.454 Acres (including 17.642 Acres rented) A recently erected Cricket Pavilion and a ‘fine brick built’ range of six Racquets Courts and an attractive garden with ornamental Lily Pond The Valuation given is £154,525 (£14,942,568 today), with £99,453 (£9,617,105 today) spent in the last ten years on buildings, land and improvements of which gifts amounting to £11,218 (£1,084,780 today) had offset the liability from the School Shop, O.S.E. and O.T.C. The Endowment Fund now stood at £6,615 (£639,671 today) Approval given for two new windows to be installed in the southern end of Big School to ‘improve the light’ at a cost of £74 (£7,156 today) (Committee Meeting, November 1934) Approval given to cut down the dead willow by the Outdoor Bath as well as two Poplars in the same vicinity (Governors’ Meeting November 1934) Scheme agreed to supply the Outdoor Bath and 2nd XI Cricket Pitch with a new water supply (undefined) - cost will be covered by School Shop funds (Committee Meeting, February 1935) A brand new Mixer and Mincing Machine authorised for the School kitchens (Committee Meeting, February 1935) Between 1924 and 1934 School’s freehold land has grown from 26 to 97 acres Warden makes proposal to erect a tomb of the Reverend Algernon Simeon in the Memorial Chapel (Governors’ Meeting, November 1934). This was later turned down by the General Services Committee Title of ‘Executive Committee’ altered to ‘General Purposes Committee’ (Governors’ Meeting, November 1934). 1935 - Land purchased at Wolvercote between river and railway for a Boatman’s Cottage ( Brook Kitchin design - Box 15)