Designed by Harold Greenhalgh and constructed from 1938 to 1939 to bridge the Academic Hall with the Covered Playground. The ground floor being given over to washrooms for the boarders and PE changing rooms, with the upper floor laid out with classrooms for the Preparatory School and the music department. The building was named in honour of the College Rector Monsignor Francis Gonne who drowned in the sea at Blackpool in August 1938 whilst swimming in stormy weather.

The Henshaw Building Designed by Harold Greenhalgh, as a replacement for the Vaughan building, constructed on the site of several Victorian villas. By the 1930s the Vaughan building was seen as entirely impractical as a school building, when the Henshaw was built it was to house all classes and academic activity, with the Vaughan being given entirely over to accommodation for staff and boarders.

The first brick of the Henshaw was laid in August 1932, with the building being officially opened in June 1934. Originally titled ‘The New School’ until 1940 when the name was changed to ‘The School’. The name Henshaw Building was adopted in 1957. It is named in honour of Bishop Thomas Henshaw, Vice Rector of the College 1905-1912 and Bishop of Salford 1925-1938. A statue of Bishop Henshaw can be found in the College Chapel.

Designed by Edward Joseph Hansom, the building was to be constructed in three stages to form a symmetrical Florentine Palazzo. There are four relief panels by Tinworth and Doulton located near the entrance. The South wing was built 1878 to 1880, the central wing was then added 1883 to 1884, plans for the North Wing were never executed, although the foundation stone was laid in July 1924, the project was shelved due to spiralling costs, and later cancelled. Following the opening of the Henshaw building in 1934, it was given over entirely to residential and administrative purposes and was rechristened as the ‘The College’. It is now named after Cardinal Herbert Vaughan whose bust can be seen above the entrance to the Academic Hall. Cardinal Vaughan founded St. Bede’s when he was the Bishop of Salford in 1876.

In the late 1940s, after the Second World War, St Bede’s College became a Direct Grant Grammar School under the 1944 Education Act. In order to qualify for this status and funding, drastic improvements had to be made to the facilities provided by the College for the Day-Boys, and to this end Frank Reynolds, himself an Old Bedian, was engaged to design the Beck building. Opened in 1957 and named in honour of Bishop George Andrew Beck, it provided modern, hi-tech and spacious accommodations for the boys, connecting to the historic centre of the College through the cloisters. A gigantic portrait of Bishop Beck hangs in the Dining Room.

The Regis Building Originally built in 1910 as a residential retreat house attached to the Cenacle Convent, where large groups of inner-city school children would attend week-long spiritual retreats. The building was taken over by St Bede’s College in 1973, but remained empty for about ten years, when further accommodation was required with the College becoming co-educational and it was converted into classrooms 1984 to 1985. The building is named in honour of Saint John Francis Regis, a seventeenth century Jesuit Priest.