 It was designed by Sir Herbert Baker and dedicated in 1924 and again in 1948.A bronze bust of Old Boy Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding sits on the west side of the cloister.War Cloister occupies a strategic position on Kingsgate Street (accessed via "South Africa Gate", which commemorates the Wykehamist dead of the 1899–1902 Boer War), so that most Commoners go through it on their way to and from class.