Photograph by Ian Taylor (from WikiMedia Commons)

The Memorial Hall, Bishop’s Stortford College

The Memorial Hall was built in 1921-2 at the instigation of the long serving headmaster Francis Samuel Young, as a memorial to the 62 former College students who had died in the First World War.  The architect was Clough Williams-Ellis, best known for his fantasy Italianate village Port Meirion on the North Wales coast, used as a location for the cult 1960’s TV series The Prisoner.  It is a rather elegant “Colonial” Georgian style building, constructed of soft yellow brick with Portland stone dressings, a steep pitched pantile roof with a central copper-covered cupola.  The tall central windows ensure that the building is flooded with light.

The original Roll of Honour was joined by a second Roll, to commemorate the 154 former students who had lost their lives in the Second World War.

Entrance to the “Mem” Hall