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Buildings and Estates
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Buildings and Estates

  • BES
  • Subfonds
  • 1802 - 2020

A collection which focuses on the history of the school campus and buildings. There is an excellent photographic record of the school campus including the development of both houses and teaching buildings.

The collection contains architectural plans for buildings and press releases/ photographs of the opening of new additions to the school campus.

This sub-fonds contains general policy documents more relevant to the estates and IT daily functions.

The three series divide this sub-fonds amongst buildings, campus services, and IT.

Oakham School

Buildings

This series is related to the buildings on the School campus and documents their history. Most of the collection is made of photographs and artwork, as well as architectural plans. Each sub-series focusses on a different building.

Oakham School

Battle lines drawn over frescoes

Newspaper cutting from The Daily Telegraph reporting on the debate concerning the frescoes in Old School and the decision to install panelling instead of covering them.

The Daily Telegraph

New Talks in Frescos Row

News paper cutting from the Leicester Mercury reporting on the debate concerning the frescoes in Old School.

Leicester Mercury

A letter from Graham Smallbone to Elizabeth Cumming

A letter from the Headmaster Graham Smallbone to Dr Elizabeth Cumming regarding preserving the frescoes in Old School whilst trying to restore the historical building, and discussing the press coverage of the debate.

Graham Smallbone

A letter from Elizabeth Cumming

A letter (A) from Dr Elizabeth Cumming to the Headmaster Graham Smallbone regarding the debate concerning covering the frescoes in Old School. Attached is a photocopy of an article published in The Times on 20 August 1993 regarding an exhibition on Phoebe Anna Traquair in Edinburgh Art Galleries (B).

Dr Elizabeth Cumming

A letter from Marion Hall to Nigel Webb

A letter (A) from Marion Hall to Nigel Webb, Second Master, thanking him for a visit to the School and enclosing a short piece (B-D) on Mary Sargant Florence. Four pages.

Marion Hall

Publication

This file focusses on various publication, mostly newspaper cuttings, related to the frescoes in Old School and the painter Mary Sargant Florence and post-medieval mural painting. This file is from the year 1993.

Alan Powers

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