QUEEN MARY'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL BUILDINGS

QUEEN MARY'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL BUILDINGS, LICHFIELD STREET

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392787
Date first listed:: 27-May-2005
List Entry Name:: QUEEN MARY'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL BUILDINGS
Statutory Address:: QUEEN MARY'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL BUILDINGS, LICHFIELD STREET

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392787
Date first listed:: 27-May-2005
List Entry Name:: QUEEN MARY'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL BUILDINGS
Statutory Address 1:: QUEEN MARY'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL BUILDINGS, LICHFIELD STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: QUEEN MARY'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL BUILDINGS, LICHFIELD STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Walsall (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 01740 99055

Details

WALSALL

1690/0/10053 LICHFIELD STREET 27-MAY-05 Queen Mary's Grammar School Buildings

II School. 1850. Edward Adams. Red Flemish bond brick with stone dressings and a plain tile roof. "Tudorbethan". I-shaped plan of 2 and 3 storeys with central schoolroom range. The entrance front is symmetrical to the road with 5 central bays. These have 4-centered arches to the ground floor with hood moulds which originally formed an open colonnade, but were glazed in the C20. Above are the large cross-windows of the school room with ashlar surrounds and 4-centered heads to the lights which are connected by a continuous hood-mould. Below the central window is a stone plaque which states in relief in Gothic script: "The Grammar School/founded by Queen Mary/AD 1554./Rebuilt/AD 1849." There is a brick parapet to the top of the wall with a gablet above each bay. This central block has a seperate longitudinal roof with shaped gables at either side which have large chimney stacks to their centres. Slightly projecting at either side are 3-storey wings which each have 2 shaped gables facing the road. Contemporary etchings show that the wings were originally similar and followed the pattern of the former headmaster's house in the left hand wing which has a central doorway with 4-centered head flanked by 2-light casements. To the first floor are similar windows at either side of a narrow single-light and to the second floor are 2 similar windows at either side of a diamond-shaped light. The right wing now has two floors and 2 long windows to either side of a central, single light. There is a substantial wing to the rear added in the later C19 which is not included with this item and a C20 metal-clad stair tower which is similarly excluded. The rear has several, original, metal-framed lattice windows. Interior: The former headmaster's house has cornicing to two ground floor rooms and central ceiling roses. The colonnade has been converted to a canteen. The Schoolroom at first floor level has a panelled roof with braces consisting of corbels supporting wall posts and arched braces connected to scissor beams. History: A boy's grammar school was founded in 1554 and endowed with some 300 acres. In 1838 the school was divided into two parts with the grammar school accompanied by a commercial school. From 1847 the school occupied the grandstand on the town's racecourse and then in 1850 moved to the present premises designed by Edward Adams, a local architect and former pupil of the school. In 1873 the school's property was vested in the charity commissioners and it became non-denominational. From this same date girls were educated in an adjacent building called Queen Mary's High School for Girls. In 1965 a separate boys' school was built at Mayfield and the buildings which are the subject of this application were handed over to the girls' school. Source: Victoria County History, Staffordshire, Vol VI, pp. 174-176.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 491900
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
The Victoria History of the County of Staffordshire: Volume XVII

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.