Heritage - Speech Room
A culture of giving, as old as the School itself
At the beginning of the 2023/2024 academic year, the newly refurbished Speech Room reopened after a seven-month refurbishment project in commemoration of the School's 450 year anniversary.
Speech Room has been host to the grandest of occasions, with Kings, Queens, Prime Ministers, foreign dignitaries, and an array of impressive visiting speakers having graced its platform. Its impressive design is simultaneously functional, beautiful and versatile, used for whole School assemblies, Songs, Glees and Twelves, Prize-giving and Speeches, musical concerts, Shakespeare and other theatre.
Restoration
The comprehensive restoration and refit of this Grade II-listed building included:
- The removal and replacement of the lighting scheme
- Complete rewiring
- Sympathetic and careful redecoration
- Specialist cleaning of the stained glass
- The cast iron columns and bases redecorated
- The vaults and arches over the proscenium cleaned and redecorated along with all walls and stones
Sponsor a Chair
As part of Harrow 450, the Harrow Development Trust is inviting OH families, parents and friends of the School to support this significant project, either by sponsoring a chair for £1,000, or supporting the restoration at any level.
Many of the existing chairs will be restored and reupholstered and those beyond repair, will be replaced. Funds raised from this appeal will go towards the costs of this Harrow 450 heritage project, and each chair will carry a brass plaque with the donor’s name(s).
