Timeline of Buildings

Key dates

The following table sets out the years in which constituent school buildings were opened. An asterisk (*) denotes a building that has either been demolished, or which is no longer used by the school.

Year of opening	Building
1567/8	Big School
1827	Number One South End* (no longer used by the school)
1850	North end lobby of Big School
1856	South end classroom of Big School
1866	North end classroom of Big School
1871	Number One South End extended to accommodate more boarders First Fives Court* (demolished in 1904)
1904	First science block Second Fives Court* (demolished around 2000)
1926	Main Quadrangle Block
1938	Sports Field
1939	Air Raid Shelters* (demolished in 1958 and 1968)
1949	First Dining Hall* (demolished in 1984)
1953	Ormiston House, 27 Rowley Road* (sold in 1980)
1958	Assembly Hall Second science block* (demolished in 2002)
1960	Pavilion Staff Room
1965	Swimming pool* (in use until 1981)
1966	Junior Common Room
1968	Mobiles* (all removed by 2003)
1976	Sports Hall
1984	Second Dining Hall
1985	Design and Technology Block
1988	Link Block
1993	Sixth Form Block
1997	Art and Music Block
2002	Third science block

Aerial views and plans

1888 OS map showing Goodbarns Yard, the location of BGS 1555-1567
1888
1930
1930 (including the land which would become the Sports Field in 1938)
1930s
Circa 1957. Note the second science block and Assembly Hall under construction.
1966
Early 1970s
1976 hand-drawn room map. Rooms A, L, V, W, X, Y and Z were mobile classrooms
Plans for future development in 1983 (prepared by architect Keith Stevens)
1999 ( (c) 2020 Google, Infoterra & Bluesky )
Late 2010s
2020 ( (c) Google, CNES, Airbus, Getmapping plc, Infoterra Ltd and Bluesky, Maxar Technologies, Map data (c)2020 )