PARKER HALL

In

the pre-Barne era (1912) Sanawar’s Girls’ School was a completely separate entity from the Boys’ School. The boys and girls only saw each other during service in the Chapel. The girls stayed in the dormitory next to the Church - which was then a three storyed building. They had their meals in Parker Hall. Though the name implies a single large hall, Parker Hall is, infact, a complex of rooms, big and small. This alongwith the cluster of rooms of the Printing Press served as class room space for the girls.

In May 1939, the functioing of Parker Hall was limited exculsively to the Girls’ Dining Hall.

The older of the surviving Old Sanawarians will remember it as an exremely gracious dining hall. Lovely old coloured prints of British historical events, in antique ornamental frames, enlivened the walls. There were tables for four and the Senior Mistress took turns, sitting at each table, ensuring that the girls observed perfect table manners and conversed only on subjects which were appropriate for table conversation