Description

LICHFIELD

SK1109NE POOL WALK 1094-1/5/139 (South side) 14/02/75 Former St Mary's Infants' School (Formerly Listed as: MINSTERPOOL WALK St Mary's Infants' School)

GV II

Former Diocesan Training School and Commercial School. 1840, small extension of 1869. By Thomas Johnson of Lichfield. Brick with buff brick diapering and ashlar dressings; slate roof with brick end stack. Single storey, 4-window, range with cross wing. Ashlar sill course and coped gable with kneelers. Double-chamfered cross-mullioned windows with small-paned glazing, mostly of elongated octagons and squares, and plate glass opening lights; wing has similar 4-light transomed window; roundel above has enriched iron grille above. Left return has coped gable with finial over 2 windows. Rear has simpler details. Left return has lateral stack and small gabled wing to rear; archway to area has plank door. The school was used by St Mary's Schools from 1863-1981 and by Lichfield Cathedral School until 1989. (Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade M W: Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.176-8, 182).

Listing NGR: SK1155209568

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Old House Care and Repair