SAINT FRANCIS SCHOOL
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The old St. Francis School was accommodation to each floor, and located on a retained platform on a basement stores. This was completed site which falls steeply away from and ready for occupation by the Kennedy Road to the north and east, commencement of the 1955 Septem- and with the platform 16 feet lower ber school term.
the
than the roadway. Construction of The programme was then consider- new building was planned in ably expanded, making necessary the stages so that the school could con- acquisition of an adjoining lot to the tinue to carry on in the old buildings, west. A condition of the lease was until sufficient accommodation could allowance for the new alignment of be made available for the classes to be moved into the new building.
The development plans were scribed in detail in Volume 10 Issue No. 6 of the Hong Kong & Far East Builder at the end of 1954.
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The first stage comprised a classroom wing in the eastern half of the site, on 6 storeys with lavatory
(Top) View of the School from
Kennedy Road. (Right) The east elevation showing the relation of Stages I & II to the old school. The name of the School, reproduced above, is taken from the building itself. The lettering was executed directly onto the wall adjoining the entrance by Michael Griffiths.
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Architects:-
LEIGH
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ORANGE
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