A space to inspire. A place for everyone.
The Music Room Project
Beginning in summer 2025, we will transform an underused and rundown hidden gem tucked away in the corner of College into one of our most beautiful, useful and well-loved spaces. Our stunning new Music Room is going to become a special hub for the musical, artistic and intellectual life of College.
The Pastry School sits in the corner of Chavasse Quad. The Music Room on its first floor is currently dilapidated, underused and entirely inaccessible to those requiring lift access. This building has the potential to become one of the most striking and well-loved spaces in College. With renovation and renewal, the Pastry School will now become an inspiring and accessible event space where both in-person and live-streamed events can be made available to more members of our community, as well as offering much-needed practice rooms for our student musicians and a Green Room for performers and speakers.
Priority 1: Accessibility
We will make the Music Room accessible via a footbridge connecting the Music Room to the Perrodo Building, which has a lift, enabling everyone to access the space.
Priority 2: Refurbishment
The complete renovation of the Pastry School building will bring out the full acoustic and aesthetic potential of the space. Redecorated and restored in the Arts and Craft style, with splendid acoustics and audio-visual equipment, the new Music Room on the first floor will hold up to 70 people, facilitating musical and artistic performances and high-profile gatherings and talks. Musical practice rooms will be added to the ground floor.
Timing
In June 2025, the Middle Common Room relocated to a fine new home in Thomas Hull House on New Inn Hall Street, enabling the full restoration of the Pastry School building. Work on the project is now underway and will be finished by Spring 2026.
Support the project
You can partner with the College in making this happen by making a contribution to this transformative project.
Thanks to some substantial gifts already received, we now have just £200,000 of our fundraising target left to raise. Can you help us get there?
Any contribution, at any scale, would be gratefully received. We value gifts of all sizes to help us bring this newly accessible and transformed Music Room into being.
For gifts of £5k and above, there are opportunities to be visibly part of the project in lasting ways through naming opportunities at a range of different scales. The names of those who give £5k or more will appear on our VIP donor board.
To give now, click here or select the button below. To learn more about making a transformative gift, contact our Development and Alumni Relations Team, who would be delighted to speak with you about your giving priorities.
Envisage the New Music Room
View the photo gallery below to explore the project further, or download a small informational booklet at the link below.
Give today
Our students will love making these spaces their own, and we look forward to inviting all those who have helped to make them possible back to College for some special opening events.
Contact us
The St Peter's College Development and Alumni Relations Office is open Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm. Stop by our office on the first floor of Staircase I, or contact us using the details below. We look forward to hearing from you!
Mailing address
Development and Alumni Relations
St Peter's College
New Inn Hall Street
Oxford
OX1 2DL
UK
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