The History of St Ebbe’s Primary School
St Ebbe’s Primary School moved to Whitehouse Road in 1975.
The original St Ebbe’s school was an Anglican girls’ school built in 1856 in Paradise Square (just to the west of where the Westgate shopping centre now is). With the development of the original Westgate shopping centre, much of St Ebbe’s was cleared and the school was moved across the river into Grandpont (and hence out of the parish of St Ebbe’s, though it retained the name). The original school building on Paradise Square was later the home of the Caribbean Club but has now been demolished.
For old photographs of St Ebbe’s School see Carole Newbigging, The Changing Faces of South Oxford and South Hinksey, Book 3, p.73 (Robert Boyd Publications, 2003).