It gradually grew in size and by 1897 the foundation stone was laid for a permanent college, this being completed in 1901.
Two former students of the college were martyred in China during the Boxer Rising: Harry Vine Norman and Charles Robinson, who were murdered in 1900.
Another, Frederick Day of Stratton St Margaret near Swindon was murdered in North China on 4 March 1912.
[6] To the right is the 1897–1901 extension, neo-Jacobean in dressed stone, decorated with ornate features such as gabled dormers bearing finials.
[7] Arthur Anstey, later Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago and Archbishop of the West Indies, was principal of the college from 1904.