ABSTRACT
St Mark’s has a long and illustrious history. It was founded in Chelsea in 1843 as a ‘practising school’ for St Mark’s Church of England Training College. After the move to Fulham, girls were admitted in 1962 and it subsequently became a fully comprehensive school. Throughout the 1980s, academic standards declined and the ‘plant’—particularly the lower school building-received little in the way of modernization or upgrading. The managerial problems associated with running a school of two distant and disparate halves loomed ever larger and the governing body made a number of serious and costly but ultimately abortive attempts to bring the school together on the Bishop’s Park site.
