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

P AGE N O : 65 plans centre the proposed building upon one of the Cloisters and allows for transept extension to the Chapel and Speech Hall behind Big School. This will also mean moving the Calvary to a new location

nearer the Chapel (General Purposes Meeting, December 1952) Kitchen preparation room developed as a Bakery (Jack Tate list 1955).

1953 - Work started on the Memorial Library and Art Room ( K.A. Stevens design ), south of the Chapel and north of Big School. Expected completion is Gaudy 1954 (April Chronicle). Costs are expected to be £15,978 (£621,544 today), some £2,700 more than the very first quote for the same building in 1949. The builders will be Hutchins & Green. This estimate does not include the furbishment of the Art Room, the removal and re-siting of the Calvary, alterations to the Cloisters and Quadrangle - so in all the complete new project is expected to cost £17,500 (£680,750 today) (General Purposes Meeting, February 1953) To accommodate the new building, the WW1 Calvary is moved a few yards nearer the Chapel (September Chronicle) A sundial originally ‘in a vulnerable position’ at the Outdoor Pool is moved to the Sanatorium garden A ‘proper’ drainage system laid under the Quadrangle and the surface finished in Tar Macadam and gravel 250 yards of Oak Fence erected the whole way along the Woodstock Road frontage to the playing fields replacing the ‘straggling remnants of Blackthorn’ (Hill, 1963). Costs involved are £497 (£19,333 today) (General Purposes Meeting, February 1953) Extension added to the Boathouse to cover the increasing number of boats, and the river bank made straight and solid by means of sand bags backed with concrete, the work carried out of by Bob Arundel (Common Room) and a party of the boys The Segar’s House married quarters question needs revision and likewise the possible improvement of married quarters in School House (Governors’ Meeting, June 1953). Such changes ‘could only be had at a very heavy cost’; however, ‘such provisions as additional W.C.s and hand-basins and the removal of certain partitions and doors would add to masters comfort at more reasonable cost’ (General Purposes Meeting, October 1953) Chapel re-decoration to be undertaken shortly at a cost of £550 (£21,395 today) (General Purposes Committee, October 1953) Plans for a covered way connecting the Sanatorium to the isolation huts wards considered at a cost of £300 (£11,670 today) - part of the plan is agreed, with anything additional put off to a later date (General Purposes Meeting, June 1953) Tablet recording the names of those buried in the Chapel Burial Ground to be placed on the side of the Chapel Wall (General Purposes meeting, October 1953) and added to up to 1970. 1954 - Frank Fisher appointed the School’s seventh Warden With a new Warden in post, new carpets, curtains for the Study, Dining Room, Drawing Room and the two Guest Rooms in his house are approved at the cost of £500 (£12,600 today) Funds for the new Memorial Library and Art Room ( Fielding Dodd and Keith Stevens design ) reach the target of £14,500 (£546,650 today), thanks to an appeal lasting two years. Warden Henry Kendall opens the building officially at his last Gaudy on 5 th June, following a Service of Dedication in Chapel taken by Robert Mortimer, Bishop of Exeter (O.S.E.). This building provides a Library on the ground floor