Supporting Places
To achieve its goals the Foundation needs to ensure that its facilities are of the highest possible standard. Generations of Millhillians have benefited from the generosity of members of its community.
One hundred years ago, under Sir John McClure, some of the major buildings which define the School were built funded by, amongst others, Lord Winterstoke of Blagdon (the Winterstoke Library and the Chapel) and Herbert Marnham (Marnham Building). Fifty years ago the Art and Design Block was built.
In more recent times the artificial sports surface on Fishing Net was made possible by the generosity of an Old Millhillian. This facility was further enhanced by the installation of floodlights which allow training and matches to take place during winter months.
Other buildings bear the names of great members of the community – the McClure Music School, the Buckland Garden and the Patrick Troughton Theatre. The building programme embraces a number of projects.
The flagship is the Favell Building, an academic teaching block on three floors, with fine transparent links at each level with the Marnham. It provides 25 new classrooms with libraries, seminar and resource rooms for the Geography, History, Business Education, Classics, RE and Modern Languages departments.
Another major capital project was the new changing rooms to replace those lost when creating the space for the Favell Building. The changing room building was opened in March 2008 by Old Millhillian Mike Corby. Mr Corby, who left Mill Hill in 1958, is one of this country's most successful sportsmen with more than 250 England and Great Britain caps in hockey and squash.
It is the School’s intention in the very near future to seek to enhance and expand on the current science facilities at Mill Hill and classroom resources at Belmont.
It is anticipated that facilities within these buildings or the buildings themselves will recognise great Millhillians and generous benefaction.
