Building Name

Board School. Clarksfield Oldham (Architectural Competition)

Date
1903
District/Town
Clarksfield, Oldham
County/Country
GMCA, England
Architect
Work
Architectural competition
Status
Second premium

 

OLDHAM - The new Board schools competition at Oldham has been settled. The assessor (whose name is not stated) awarded the first place to Messrs. Henry Cheers, of Twickenham, London, and Smith, of Blackburn, joint architects, and second place to those sent in by Messrs Woodhouse and Willoughby, of Manchester. The drawings have been on view this week. The arrangement was for 1,200 on the ground floor, 400 senior and 400 junior in one mixed school, and 400 infants. The site is almost square, but falls about 25ft., and one corner of the land is almost 3ft. above the level of the other, while diagonally the levels vary even more, about 14ft. one way and lift, the other. The successful plan doubtless has hit on a scheme to meet the difficult question of the levels, as the mixed school for 800 with a central hall would be over 200ft. long. We hope soon to illustrate the accepted design, which his been promised us by the architects. [Building News 18 December 1903 page 827].

Langham provided presentation drawings.