THE CITY OF OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE VoL. LVIII, ili JULY 1966 No. 186
Fate of the COHS possessions
Among our household possessions which will find a new home at Oxford School are
the three Honours Boards, the Cave memorial tablet, the Great War bronze memorial, the Second World War stone, the bronze plaque of T. E. Lawrence by Eric Kennington (who also sculpted the bust in the crypt of St. Paul’s—a copy of which is in Jesus College Chapel-and carved Lawrence’s effigy in Portland stone in Wareham Church, Dorset), Lady Scott’s statuette of Lawrence, referred to below, and many trophies, portraits, paintings, pictures and albums. We have, too, an unpublished letter of T.E.L. to W. T. Coxhill ending “I had not the good fortune to possess the C.B.s and D.S.O.s and Croix de Guerre which the MAGAZINE gave me.”
We are keeping a weather-eye on the Foundation Stone (illustrated in this issue) the mottoes on the front door, and the the fine clock-face (too large, alas, for any obvious position at the new site). We wish we could transfer the School Field in all its beauty and with all its associations. We must rest happy in the knowledge that the Old Boys will have the benefit of it. It has been in use since 1921 with the addition of the barn field in 1936: the previous field in Norham Road in use from 1898 now forms the southern part of the Dragon School grounds.
We have presented to the Bodleian Library two framed cartoons of the School-that-might-have-been, one of which was reproduced in the MAGAZINE for July, 1956. Circumstantial evidence proves them to be part of Wm. Wilkinson’s rejected designs of 1879—by the man who built the Randolph Hotel and much of mid-Victorian North Oxford-rejected because the Hall was placed on the ground floor instead of above four class-rooms as specified.
Steps were taken two or three years ago by the Town Clerk to make legally available the School’s Trust Funds for the benefit of Oxford School. These include the capital sums whose interest covers a number of separate bequests some to be put to new uses.
For boys at school there are the Cave Memorial Prize in Mathe-matics, the James Hughes Scholarship, the William Margett’s Bursaries, the Queen Victoria Scholarship, the Henderson Bequest for cricket bats, and the Henderson Choir Fund devoted to Form Prizes). For boys at the university there are the Green Bequest, the Green Memorial Exhibition, and the Montefore Exhibition.