This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
COVENTRY BROAD LANE.
WEST MIDLANDS COVENTRY C.B. Teaching block with att.
SP 27NE Gymnasium NE of Main Block at 833/21/10006 Woodlands School
GV II
School building. 1952-57. Designed by the City Architects Department with the Ministry of Education Development Group.
Built using Hills 3'4" system, comprising a steel frame with precast concrete panels. Flat roof; prominent roof slab.
Rectangular Teaching block of three storeys with Gymnasium of one tall storey attached to North. Much glazing, in horizontal bands. Painted metal framed windows; plate glass.
An integral part of Woodlands School complex, with Main Block, Workshop and science block, Arts and Crafts block, Gymnasium block, block of two further gymnasia, two further Teaching blocks and five House blocks and cycle store to the east (qv).
Woodlands School was an experimental design project, and an early purpose-built comprehensive school.
A. Saint, Towards a Social Architecture.
N. Pevsner and A. Wedgwood, BoE: Warwickshire.
Listing NGR: SP2788179456
This is part of the Series: IOE01/0031 IOE Records taken by Edward Alvey; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mr Edward Alvey. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Alvey, Edward
Rights Holder: Alvey, Edward
Concrete, Glass, Steel, 20th Century Metal Framed Building, Monument (By Form), Classroom, Education, Schoolroom, Comprehensive School, Secondary School, School
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