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Buildings over 2018, together with a new planting scheme, subject to funding being available. The Seth-Tatman Memorial Garden was successfully completed and opened at the start of the Michaelmas Term, providing a much-admired planted space, enjoyed by boys and staff it is adjacent to the new Science building, The Laboratory, which it complements admirably.
involve a game of musical chairs by departments and offices to enable all to be completed on schedule. In the Easter holidays, the next phase of classroom refurbishment will be continued on the first floor of the South Block, while Centre Block works will carry on throughout the year. It will be very good to finally achieve completion by October Half Term. With so many areas of the Barry Buildings having now been so beautifully restored, the deficiencies of the Wodehouse Library, which is now very dated, are more apparent, and the desire to transform the Cloisters and perhaps the Lower Hall becomes ever stronger, but these projects must wait for funding. New lighting has also been installed in the Great Hall, recapturing Barry’s original architectural intent and creating a grander and more spacious feel to the whole Hall, with the barrel-vaulted celling and inside of the Lantern fully lit and the honours boards and individual wyverns on each hammer beam picked out with spotlighting. submitted very shortly for a new staff car park to be built by the Alleyn Park gate, removing parking from proximity to the Barry Buildings, restoring the heart of the campus to pedestrian use and reaffirming spacious views of the heritage buildings. The planning application is subject to Metropolitan Open Land restrictions and a decision is expected by late March 2018. It is hoped to be able to deliver the car park and revivification of some of the hard-standing areas around the Barry The Campus Landscape A planning application will be
At the same time as the external works, phased refurbishment of the Barry Buildings classrooms has been undertaken, with all works due completion by October Half Term 2018. The refurbished classrooms and corridors are magnificent, showing off Barry’s original design in all its grandeur with a pleasing simplicity which pays appropriate homage to the original architecture. The stairwells are wide and sweeping, devoid of clutter and the accretions of years. They are now light, airy and grand, while the classrooms have been acoustically well-balanced, properly ventilated and heated. An intriguing number of original features have been discovered or uncovered in the course of works and restored as far as possible. In the Lent Term the focus will shift to carrying out intrusive works throughout the Centre Block and on the ground floor of South Block, for new heating services and enhanced fire protection to be installed. It is a considerable challenge to make space for pipework in a busy building in which the current layout of services is still to be discovered. The works will
Games Facilities The rugby pitches south of the
Pavilion have bedded in very well and are performing excellently, with 40% more use of these areas than had been possible before the drainage works were completed. Existing tennis courts have also been fully refurbished (though we might wish for more). Regrettably the possibility of a ‘3G’ artificial surface for rugby and football at the Trevor Bailey Sports Ground had to be abandoned at a late stage due to commercial issues affecting the potential provider and this project has had to be placed on hold. Another exceedingly busy and challenging year but with enduring results which make the effort all the more worthwhile.
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