List of Birmingham board schools

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This is a list of the Birmingham board schools, built between the Elementary Education Act 1870 which established board schools, and the Education Act 1902, which replaced school boards with Local Education Authorities. Most of the board schools were designed by the firm Martin & Chamberlain (M&C).

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[edit] List of board schools

From these sources:[1][2][3][4][5][6]:

Birmingham Board Schools
Picture Name (original name first, if known), Address, Notes Architect Grid reference Grade Images of England or other link
Allcock St, Deritend or Bordesley, now listed as The Bridge Centre and Community Industry. Appears to have been demolished. 1875-80 M&C [2] SP081864 Grade II listed IoE, IoE
Bristol Street Board School. At junction of Irving Street and Bristol Street. Demolished 1960s for widening of the Horsefair road. Was used as a meeting place for the Christian Society from 1877 til 1892. [5][6] SP068861
Icknield Street School near the Hockley Flyover, north of the Jewellery Quarter. 1883 M&C [1] SP057882 Grade II* listed IoE, Master's house IoE
Stratford Road Primary, now Ladypool Junior & Infant School, Sparkbrook. First M&C school built after Chamberlain's death [5]. The school was extensively damaged in the Birmingham Tornado on 28 July 2005 and lost its distinctive Martin & Chamberlain tower. For damage see [1] and [2]. 1885 M&C [1][2] SP086848 Grade II* listed IoE
106 High Street, Harborne, now the Clock Tower Community Education Centre. 1885, M&C [2] SP035845 Grade II listed IoE
Oozells Street Board School; listed as Furniture Stores of City of Birmingham Education Department; College of Food and Domestic Arts; now the Ikon Gallery. 1878 M&C [5][1] SP060866 Grade II listed IoE
Floodgate School, Floodgate Street and Milk Street, Deritend, now South Birmingham College Arts and Media Campus, formerly Hall Green College annexe. 1890 [2] [7] SP078864 Grade II listed IoE
Small Heath School, Waverley Road, Byron Road, also known as County Grammar School, Small Heath; Hall Green Technical College[5] 1880-85 or 1892 M&C [1][2] SP097852 Grade II* listed IoE, Headmaster's house IoE
Somerville School, Somerville Road, Small Heath, B10 9EN (modernised). 1892-4 M&C [8] SP099859
Tilton Girls School, Tilton Road, B9. Now Darul Barakaat Mosque and Community Centre. 1890 [3] SP092866 Grade II listed IoE
Dixon Road County Primary School, Dixon Road, Small Heath, B10 0BP. Also fronts Cooksey Road. Was Newlands Centre and Regents Park Annexe & 48 Cooksey Road, Bordesley. Also BCC furniture recycling and Birmingham Community Transport. Now Shah Poran Islamic Jami Mosque And Community Trust. 1880-90 [3][1] SP088857 Grade II listed IoE, IoE
Garrison Lane Nursery School, Garrison Lane, Bordesley, B3 4BS. Now Kownayn Primary School and Garrison Lane Centre. M&C c1885 [3] SP086869 Grade II listed IoE, Headmaster's house, No 106 IoE
Dudley Road School; Now Summerfield Centre; was Summerfield Junior and Infants School, Dudley Road, Winson Green; listed as Main Block to Handsworth Technical College 1878 M&C [5] SP042876 Grade II listed IoE
Barford Road School; Now Barford Road Primary School, Barford Road, Winson Green 1887 M&C [5] SP044873
Nechells Junior and Infant School, Eliot Street, Nechells, Birmingham, England. Originally Nechells County Primary School 1879 SP094896 Grade A locally listed building

[edit] Other board schools

Using source [3]:

Using source [5]:

  • Constitution Hill 1883 (demolished 1967)
  • Denis Road Board School 1896
  • Upper Highgate Street (demolished)
  • Moseley Road
  • Marlborough Road School 1896

[edit] Other schools from the board school era

Birmingham Board Schools
Picture Name (original name first, if known), Address, Notes Architect Grid reference Grade Images of England link
Camp Hill Circus (listed as City of Birmingham Polytechnic). Built as King Edward Camp Hill School for Boys (so not run by the School Board} (used until 1956), and extended with a school for girls. Tower and roof damaged by fire in 1901[4]. Now the Bordesley Centre, run by Muath Welfare Trust. 1883 M&C [2] SP083856 Grade II listed IoE

[edit] See also

[edit] Sources

  • John Ruskin and Victorian Architecture, Michael W Brooks, 1989
  1. ^ a b c d e f Buildings of England - Warwickshire, Nikolaus Pevsner and Alexandra Wedgwood, 1966, 1974, ISBN 0-14-071031-0
  2. ^ a b c d e f g *Victorian Architecture in Britain - Blue Guide, Julian Orbach, 1987, ISBN 0-393-30070-6
  3. ^ a b c d e Images of England
  4. ^ a b King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys 1813-1983, D I Thomas
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h The Best Building in the Neighbourhood?, Martin and Chamberlain and the Birmingham Board Schools, The Victorian Society, West Midlands Group, May 1968, F. W. Greenacre, Birmingham Central Library, Birmingham Collection B.Col 48.33
  6. ^ a b Digital Ladywood (photographs of Birmingham)
  7. ^ University of Birmingham Domus - Floodgate School PDF 24Kb
  8. ^ University of Birmingham Domus - Somerville School - PDF 37 Kb
Buildings in Birmingham, England
 Highrise (In height order): BT Tower | Holloway Circus Tower | Chamberlain Clock Tower | Alpha Tower | Orion Building | The Rotunda | NatWest Tower | Five Ways Tower | Centre City Tower | Hyatt Regency Hotel | 1 Snow Hill Plaza | Quayside Tower | Colmore Gate | The McLaren Building | Metropolitan House | Edgbaston House | Post & Mail Building | Jury's Inn Birmingham 

 Notable lowrise: 1-7 Constitution Hill | 17 & 19 Newhall Street | Birmingham Assay Office | Baskerville House | Central Library | Council House | Curzon Street railway station | Great Western Arcade | ICC | The Mailbox | Methodist Central Hall | Millennium Point | The Old Crown | Paradise Forum | Birmingham Proof House | Sarehole Mill | Symphony Hall | Town Hall | Victoria Law Courts 
 Major railway stations: Moor Street station | New Street station | Snow Hill station 
  Major complexes: Brindleyplace | Bull Ring, Birmingham | Pallasades Shopping Centre 
  Sports venues: Alexander Stadium | Edgbaston Cricket Ground | NIA | St. Andrews | Villa Park 
  Lists of buildings: List of tallest buildings and structures in Birmingham | List of Birmingham board schools | Listed buildings in Birmingham
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