THE HERBERT EDWARDS PORCH

The

rear building shown in the picture is the Herbert Edwards Porch built by Col. H.B. Edwards who was a close friend of Brever Major HM Lawrence of the Artillery Regt., Founder of The Larence School, Sanawar. Col Edwards was closely associated with Sir Henry Lawrence in setting up the School and one of the School Houses was named after him.

The porch like the Chapel is built in the gothic style, complete with gargoyle heads supporting the arches and has a small but extremely beautiful Bell Turret topping it. The area around the porch must have once been soft mud and there was a quaint paved path leading upto it. Part of this path to the porch is still extant and every time one walks up this path to the porch, one is humbled by the memory of all great school personalities who trod on these stones -

Parker, Gaskell, Barne, Som Dutt, Cowell, Kemp, Bhupinder Singh and many others.

After the 1857 War, in which Sir Henry Lawrence was killed in Lucknow, Col Edwards returned to Sanawar to build the porch in memory of his friend. The porch was completed in the early months of 1858.