Bishop Fox’s School

This development is the fourth site for the Bishop Fox’s School in Taunton since its foundation in 1520. The school has been constructed as a 900 place installment of a 1200 place school. The eleven hectare site on the edge of the green belt involved two hectares of buildings, together with attenuation lagoons, stream diversion, bridges, car parking and roads.

The buildings, which will also provide facilities for the community are predominantly of steel framed construction with suspended floors on piled foundations all located on a brownfield site. The build consisted of a Sports Hall, Lecture Theatre, Teaching Blocks, Technology and a Science Block, a Library and a 550m² octagonal hall with masonry walls beneath a steel framed roof with a clock tower cupola.

Jenkins & Potter designed the drainage, attenuation lagoons with outfalls and control weir, the access bridge, roads and car parking.