Holy Cross Fire Damaged Music Room

All schools undergo a continuous maintenance programme during the Summer holidays. June 1999 will however stay in the minds of the Bursar and the Headmistress of Holy Cross for a long time. The roof maintenance work unhappily resulted in a fire which spread rapidly through the 19th Century Music Room. Fortunately, no one was injured and after assessing the full extent of the damage with engineers and loss adjusters we prepared a full refurbishment design.

The Music Room abutted an area of the school which housed cloakrooms and wc’s in timber-clad extensions with limited life. As a result of analysis and a design review of the area, we produced a plan to integrate new facilities and provide a new link corridor and cloister between the proposed Junior Department and the existing school. The refurbished Music Room has been given a gallery and a complete new interior and roof structure. Temporary classrooms and wc’s were provided on the site to mitigate the loss of facilities through the fire damage.

The extent of the damage to facilities such as mechanical and electrical installations has been a careful consideration and the work which is close to the heart of the school will be complete in December 2000.

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