Former Parkside School - now St Johns Surgery - Stourbridge Road, Bromsgrove : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Former Parkside School - now St Johns Surgery - Stourbridge Road, Bromsgrove / ell brown
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| 説明 | A former school at Parkside off Stourbridge Road in Bromsgrove called Parkside School.These days Parkside is occupied by two NHS surgeries - St Johns Surgery and Churchfields Surgery.It was raining when I took these.At this point I didn't know if I'd be able to get a full shot of the schools exterior.A Grade II listed building.Parkside School, Bromsgrove666/0/10059 STOURBRIDGE ROAD21-NOV-08 Parkside SchoolIISecondary school, designed in 1909 by A.V.Rowe with G.H.Gadd as executant architect and opened in April 1912. Later, C20 additions and alterations. The building is of red brick with ashlar dressings and a plain tiled roof. It has two storeys with attic and basement and its principal facade is designed in an Edwardian Baroque style.EXTERIOR: The principal entrance front faces onto Stourbridge Road, has twenty-one bays and is symmetrically arranged. All windows are sashes and almost all have key stones, with cambered heads to the ground floor windows and straight heads to the first floor. There are gabled projections, each of three bays, between the fifth to the seventh bays and the fifteenth to the seventeenth bays. These projections have quoins to the corners and in each case the ground and first floor windows of the central bay is treated as a unified composition with a large-scale, aedicular surround. In each case the first floor window has an arched top which projects into the gable and there is an oculus to the gable apex set in a richly moulded cartouche. The central bay has a frontispiece with channelled rustication and triple keystones to the arched door and window openings. Behind this central feature, on the ridge is a timber and lead bellcote with louvred openings to the sides and miniature pediments. A prominent, bracketed cornice runs along the front and continues over the large arched windows at the centre (where it forms an arched pediment) and at either side, beneath the gables. At either side of this lengthy facade are further, two-bay blocks with hipped roofs, added in the first half of the C20 which are on line with the façade. Link corridors, which connect them to the side doors of the main block, have had changing rooms added to their road flanks in the later-C20. Beyond these again, and also on line, are two free-standing bike sheds built of red brick in garden wall bond with pantile roofs and four bays to their inner faces divided by Tuscan pillars. These also appear to have been added in the first half of the C20.The rear of the building has to the centre at first floor level four prominent arched windows which light the library. To either side of these are shallow wings. These have gabled heads and four bays to the ground and first floors with cambered heads to the windows. To the gables are stone dressings and occuli which have lattice glazing. Beyond these are paired staircase windows, falling to mezzanine level, below which are keyed occuli.Attached at the centre of the rear by a corridor link with arched windows is the school hall which appears from the evidence of maps to have been rebuilt or enlarged in the first half of the C20. This has six windows to each flank. The later-C20 gymnasium is attached at the west of this.HISTORY: The building lies close to the centre of Bromsgrove, near to the church of St. John the Baptist. The land on which the school stands is recorded on early Ordnance Survey maps as being called `Churchfields' and its specific site was formerly used as a cricket ground. Bromsgrove secondary School was established in 1905 and shared premises with the School of Science and Art and the Bromsgrove Institute. There were initially fifty-four pupils, but by 1912 this had grown to one hundred and a new, purpose-built school was needed. The design for the present building was made in 1909 by A.Vernon Rowe, County Advisory Architect and was carried out under the supervision of G.H.Gadd, a local Bromsgrove architect. The building was opened by Lady Coventry on 18th April 1912 and continued to operate as a school until its closure in 2008. The principal range, facing onto Stourbridge Road, was extended, apparently in the first part of the C20, by the addition of pavilion wings to either side which were later joined to the main block by single-storey corridors, and by bicycle sheds. The hall range to the rear also appears to have been re-built or extended at the same time.SOURCE: A.Brooks & N.Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Worcestershire, 2007, p.200. |
| 撮影日 | 2013-04-13 13:19:16 |
| 撮影者 | ell brown , Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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| 撮影地 | Bromsgrove, England, United Kingdom 地図 |
| カメラ | FinePix S2980 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 0.006 sec (1/180) |
| 開放F値 | f/7.1 |