Oxford Inscriptions: Ss Philip & James's School
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29 SEP: 1872
The Church of Ss Philip & James on the Woodstock Road was consecrated by the Bishop of Oxford in 1862, but the children in this area continued to attend St Giles's National School for another ten years.
In 1872 a church infants school was built in Leckford Road, and this stone in the perimeter wall commemorates that event.
The school moved to Navigation Way in 2003.
The site was bought by d'Overbroeck's College from St John's College, and since September 2005 has been the home Leckford Place School, an independent secondary day school for boys and girls aged between 11 and 16.
In 1879 St Philip & St James School for Boys was built next to the infant school. Jackson's Oxford Journal reported on 11 October that year:
A new boys' school has been built in Leckford-road for the district of St. Philip and St. James by Mr. Brucker, from designs prepared by Mr. Drinkwater. It is 36 feet by 20 feet, and there are also a class-room 18 feet by 15 feet, lavatories, &c. It is constructed of red brick, and the roof is covered with Broseley tiles.
(The equivalent girls' parochial school, the former Holy Trinity Convent School, was in Winchester Road.)
A second stone in the perimeter wall remembers George C. Dent, who was Headmaster of that boys's school for over 44 years:
GEORGE C. DENT
HEADMASTER OF
ST PHILIP & ST JAMES SCHOOL
FOR BOYS
from April 1902 to December 1946