St. Catherine’s School Anniversary Halls
Location Bramley, Surrey
Client Catherine’s School
Contractor Feltham Construction
Completed 2011
Value £15M
Word of Mouth
A head to head recommendation led to St Catherine’s approaching us for help with their site development. After many interviews and a daunting (for us) visit by the head, bursar and governors to IID’s offices, we were appointed in 2005 to design the Anniversary Halls which comprised two distinct elements:
- a sports hall with accompanying gym, fitness centre, dance studio, changing rooms and squash courts
- a multipurpose performance hall (380 capacity) with drama studio, scenery workshop, four music practice rooms, an ensemble room, a recording studio and office space
The development includes a combined heat and power plant to provide heating and hot water as a biproduct of the heat generation required for the adjacent swimming pool.
The building won the People’s Choice Award at the 2013 Waverley Design Awards.
“The independent sector has been engaged in something of a building arms race as schools vie to show that they are investing in the future. St Cats’ new £15M Anniversary Hall is the most impressive new building I’ve yet seen on my rounds for School House. Throughout it’s the attention to detail that impresses.”
Roger Tredre, School House Magazine
Since the completion of Anniversary Halls, we have worked with the school on a masterplan for both junior and senior schools, repurposing the former Speech Hall into a Sixth Form Centre, refurbishment of two boarding mistress flats, refurbishment of the Centenary Building and a new boarding house.