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This sub-series focuses on the history of the 1993 Organ in the School Chapel. After the 1930 organ expired and was replaced by a computer organ in the 1980s, the headmaster Graham Smallbone commissioned for a new organ to be built. Some items highlight the various proposals, the correspondence focuses on the building and installation of the organ and the photographic file finally shows the organ in Chapel.

This sub-series focuses on the history of the first Chapel organ, dedicated in 1930.

This sub-series focuses on programmes given to the pupils in Congregational Practice, taken place on Wednesday morning before the first lesson in the School Chapel.

A collection of photographs and art work of Old School, oldest building of Oakham School, in Cutts Close park.

This sub-series focusses on the Merton building, erected on the site of the old Ashburton Dining Hall. It was in use on the first day of the 1991 Winter term and the official opening ceremony took place on 26 November. Michael McCrum, former Trustee and Master of Corpus Christi, Cambridge, opened the new block. It comprised “spacious corridors, staff rooms for each subjects and twenty-four comfortable and acoustically effective classrooms”. The building was named after OO Thomas Merton (‘32). The Headmaster, Graham Smallbone, planted a tree outside the entrance to commemorate the 450th anniversary of the Diocese of Peterborough. This new building houses the English, Maths and History Departments.

A group of photographs of the interior of Old School, including some of the frescoes, and a letter regarding Mary Sargant Florence's life and work.

This sub-series relates to licensing services, in particular of the School Chaplains.

This sub-series focuses on Joint services of Thanksgiving celebrating the foundation of Oakham and Uppingham schools by Archdeacon Robert Johnson.

This sub-series focuses on the Johnsons' Parents Association. The bulk of the collection is minutes of meetings from 1976 to 1997.

A collection of documents, chiefly photographs, of the day house Johnsons.
In 1972, the first purpose-built house for Day boys emerged to the west of the Ashburton Dining Hall. It was made of a large assembly hall-cum-classrooms, a study for the Housemaster, changing rooms with showers and a series of studies for the boys. It came into use in Spring term 1972. In 1973, the Day girls of Talbots House moved in upstairs of the Johnsons Day boys.