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Oozells Street Board School

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Opened
  
28 January 1878

Architect
  
John Henry Chamberlain

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Architectural style
  
Gothic Revival architecture

Similar
  
Icknield Street School, Ikon Gallery, Ladypool Primary School, Small Heath School, Adam & Eve - Birmingham

Oozells Street Board School was a Victorian board school in Oozells Street, off Broad Street in Birmingham, England.

Designed in 1877 by local architects Martin & Chamberlain, responsible for over forty of the Birmingham board schools, it opened on 28 January 1878 to serve 807 primary children.

In 1976 the tower was demolished on safety grounds. It was rebuilt around 1997 with a steel girder frame. Redevelopment was by Carillion at a cost of £4,700,000.

The building became a college and then a furniture store for Birmingham City Council before being condemned for demolition. It had a last-minute reprieve as the contract for demolition was being agreed and reopened in 1998 as the Ikon Gallery.

Since 1993 it has become surrounded by the new buildings of Brindleyplace which replaced an earlier industrial area of factories and workshops.

References

Oozells Street Board School Wikipedia