Ladypool Junior & Infant School

Ladypool Primary School is a Grade II* listed primary school on Stratford Road in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, England. It stands next to St Agatha's Church.

It was built as Stratford Road Primary in 1885 by architects Martin & Chamberlain as a Birmingham board school, one of around forty schools built by that firm in an innovative style as a result of the Elementary Education Act 1870.

The school was extensively damaged in the Birmingham Tornado on July 28 2005 and lost its distinctive Martin & Chamberlain tower. The school proposed to build a replicate of the tower. On October 26 2006, Birmingham City Council Planning Department decided that the planning application should be referred to the Department for Communities and Local Government.

References

*IoEentry|217657|Images of England - details from listed building text
*"Pevsner Architectural Guides - Birmingham", Andy Foster, 2005, ISBN 0-300-10731-5
*"Victorian Architecture in Britain - Blue Guide", Julian Orbach, 1987, ISBN 0-393-30070-6
* [http://80.86.36.120/vault/XDDocStore_5/0180015_FINAL.Stratford%20Road.C0163106BLB.pdf Planning application for the reconstruction of tower]

External links

* [http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/Media/Tornado%20Exhibition%20G5.pdf?MEDIA_ID=133502&FILENAME=Tornado%20Exhibition%20G5.pdf Tornado da
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* [http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/Media/tornado.pdf?MEDIA_ID=103940&FILENAME=tornado.pdf Tornado da
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