Benson Junior School

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

BENSON ROAD 1.

5104 Winson Green B18 Benson Junior School SP 08 NW 6/1 II GV 2.

Circa 1890. Brown brick and buff terracotta dressings. Central spire with, to Allens Road, 6 gabled bays, that on the left treated differently from the others and that on the right smaller than these. Each gable with a big pointed arched window with mullions and flanking smaller lights as though Palladian windows; the small gable on the right with a single pointed arched window. Between bays 3 and 4 the tower rises above a modern brick addition.

Square base turning octagonal by means of broaches. Gables to east and west along the long axis and then an octagonal slated spire rising in 4 stages, the 2nd louvred and the fourth a little cupola with iron finial. On the return, 4 similar gabled bays, the fourth advanced.



Listing NGR: SP0478688893

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1836 IOE Records taken by J J Sheridan; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr J J Sheridan. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project