Page 39 - Gonzaga Record 1950-59
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Construction - the first building programme
The inadequacies of the facilities in St Joseph’s House
(the former Sandford Grove) – no space in which the
whole school could be assembled, no gymnasium, no
space where plays or concerts could be performed; no
library; no chapel adequate to hold the entire school –
resulted in the decision to build. The contract for
construction of the first phase, which excluded the
building of a chapel, was signed with Messrs John Sisk &
th
Son on February 16 1956, to a design drawn up by
architects Devane and Robinson.
th
Clearing of the site began on February 27. Fr Lee refers
to the felling of ‘a noble beech tree’, the only tree that
had to go, and presumably the one pictured below.
th
March 7 , 1956
38
The inadequacies of the facilities in St Joseph’s House
(the former Sandford Grove) – no space in which the
whole school could be assembled, no gymnasium, no
space where plays or concerts could be performed; no
library; no chapel adequate to hold the entire school –
resulted in the decision to build. The contract for
construction of the first phase, which excluded the
building of a chapel, was signed with Messrs John Sisk &
th
Son on February 16 1956, to a design drawn up by
architects Devane and Robinson.
th
Clearing of the site began on February 27. Fr Lee refers
to the felling of ‘a noble beech tree’, the only tree that
had to go, and presumably the one pictured below.
th
March 7 , 1956
38
