Oozells Street Board School

Oozells Street Board School was a Victorian board school in Oozells Street, off Broad Street in Birmingham, England. It is a Grade II listed building.^{[citation needed]}

Oozells Street Board School
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Established	28 January 1878 (1878-01-28)
Enrollment	807 (1878)

Designed in 1877 by local architects Martin & Chamberlain, responsible for over forty of the Birmingham board schools, it opened on 28 January 1878 to serve 807 primary children.^[1]

The building became a college and then a furniture store for Birmingham City Council before being condemned for demolition; in 1976 the tower was demolished on safety grounds.^[1]

The Ikon Gallery, formerly Oozells Street Board School

The structure had a last-minute reprieve as the contract for demolition was being agreed and was renovated by Carillion, including the re-erection of the tower, with a steel girder frame, around 1997.^[2] The work cost of £4,700,000^[3] and the building reopened in 1998 as the Ikon Gallery.^[1]

Since 1993 it has been surrounded by the new buildings of Brindleyplace which replaced an earlier industrial area of factories and workshops.

See also

• List of Birmingham board schools