The last stage before submitting our planning application was to hold a Press Conference at the Oratory. We invited the local and national Catholic press, as well as all the local amenity socities, who were well represented. They seemed to like what they saw! The Oxford Times gave us an advance publicity spread, summarised in the Oxford Mail (both 20 July). We showed them the models, and photomontages of how the new building will look in context. Such as the ones we put on the "plans" section of the campaign website. The library attracted interest, particularly the plan to house the Chesterton collection. So here is an aerial view of the library with the roof taken off.
On the same day, rain on the back-filled archaeological trench washed up two fragments of late mediaeval pottery which only goes to prove that somewhere near us there was late-mediaeval occupation. There is nothing now to delay submission of the application, but then it will be a couple of months before we hear anything. In the meantime, the money keeps rollin in...
