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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26482916

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