Beneath the Hall are four Class-rooms, a “Common-room” for the Masters, and lavatories. The rooms open into a Cloister which is on the south side of the building. The Governing Body of Repton School paid for the rooms below out of the School funds, the Hall itself being paid for by friends, old pupils, &c., of Dr. Pears. The architect was Sir Arthur Blomfield, A.R.A., and the style, Perpendicular. On June 17th, 1886, The Honble. Mr. Justice Denman, (O.R.,) presided at the opening, and declared the Hall opened in these words, “I declare this Schoolroom, which has been built in the faith of Jesus Christ, and in memory of His servant, Steuart Adolphus Pears, to be now open.” Then, after a few dedicatory prayers, and the singing of the “Old Hundredth,” speeches were delivered by Mr. Denman, Rev. W. Johnson, (the Senior Assistant Master), Mr. Etherington-Smith, and the Rev. J. H. Clay, O.R.s, and the Headmaster (the Rev. W. M. Furneaux). [Illustration: Plate 13. Mr. Cattley’s and Mr. Forman’s Houses. Mr. Gould’s House.] Over the door at the east end is a brass tablet bearing the following inscription:— IN HONOREM PRÆCEPTORIS OPTIMI STEUART ADOLPHI PEARS S.T.P. SCHOLÆ REPANDUNENSI PROPE VIGINTI ANNOS PRÆPOSITI UT INSIGNIA EJUS ERGA SCHOLAM ILLAM ANTIQUAM BENEFICIA MONUMENTO PERPETUO IN MEMORIAM REVOCARENTUR HOC ÆDIFICIUM AMICI ET DISCIPULI EJUS EXTRUENDUM CURAVERUNT. A. S. MDCCCLXXXVI. Portraits of Drs. Sleath, Peile, Pears, and Huckin, adorn its walls. In 1888 the block of four Form rooms on the east side of the Priory was built, and a year later the old “Big School” was dismantled, its floor and ceiling were covered with oak, and, later on, its walls were panelled with oak, and shelves of the same material were affixed to them, it was fitted up with oak tables and seats, as a Sixth Form library. The inner room is about to be similarly fitted up. How former generations of O.R.s would stare if they could see the accommodation for the present Sixth Form! When Dr. Bigsby was a boy at School “the chair and desk of the Headmaster were under the canopy of time-stained oak, on a raised stage or platform,” at the north end of the room, “ascended, on either side, by steps. The space thus separated from the floor beneath was formerly enclosed in the manner of a pew, and contained seats for the accommodation of nearly the whole of the Sixth or head form. The approach was by a door at either side, situate above the steps.” This “pew,” much to the sorrow of the Dr., was removed in the year 1821. In 1883-4 roof was raised, and new “studies” were built at the Hall. During the last ten years additional blocks of class rooms, laboratories, fives-courts, and a Porter’s Lodge (the gift of the present Headmaster) have been added.