[Shield of St Edward’s School with
“Pietas Parentum” motto]

SAINT EDWARD’S SCHOOL
WAS FOUNDED IN 1863 BY
THE REV. THOMAS CHAMBERLAIN
STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH
VICAR OF ST. THOMAS THE MARTYR
IN
MACKWORTH HALL
THEN STANDING ON THIS SITE
THE SCHOOL WAS MOVED TO
SUMMERTOWN IN 1873 by
THE REV. A. B. SIMEON
FIRST WARDEN

This plaque in New Inn Hall Street marks the site both of Mackworth Hall and of the first home of St Edward’s School.

St Edward’s School was founded here in 1863 by the Tractarian Thomas Chamberlain, Vicar of St Thomas the Martyr. It moved to its present site on the Woodstock Road in 1873.

On 21 February 1874 Jackson's Oxford Journal announced an auction of the materials that comprised what was formerly St Edward's School, whose land had been let out on building leases, as follows:

A LARGE QUANTITY OF OLD BUILDING MATERIALS

Comprising a pair of large Venetian doors, with patent spring hinges and boxing shutters; marble and other chimney pieces, doors, grates, gas meter, oak floors, beams and joists, windows, a large quantity of panelling, old lead, gas piping, cupboards, blue and Stonesfield slates, bricks, stone, paving, spouting, Chimney stacks, and other effects.