Spring Hill College at Moseley School and Sixth Form

Spring Hill College is a Grade 2* Listed building and originated to train Congregational ministers in inner city Hockley, but moved to this then new building in 1857. When universities opened up to non-conformists later in 19th C the College moved to Oxford in 1886 to become Mansfield College.

The old College building was acquired in 1892 by a local builder - William Ross - who converted the building to the Pine Dell Hydropathic Baths and the grounds to Moseley Botanical Gardens. that venture lasted until 1900. After a long period of vacancy, the College was requestioned in 1914 to become Moseley Barracks, the home and first training base for the Third Birmingham Pals Battalion before they were eventually sent to the front in France and Belgium.

In 1917 a children's home run by The Sisters of Nazareth was relocated from Northfield to the college after their own building had been bombed. They occupied the building until 1921, when it became Springfield College a teacher training college for disabled ex-service men. It was acquired by the City Council in 1923 to be school for boys with an increasing demand for secondary education, then becoming a Grammar School in 1939, and amalgamating in 1974 with Moseley Modern School next door to become the large comprehensive school it is today.

Much of the original interior and exterior remains while has to function as part of a busy school today. The old library, corridors and impressive Tower are the key features.

Timings & Tours

Saturday 13 September:

11.00 - 16.30

Location & directions

Wake Green Road, Birmingham, West Midlands, B13 9UU

Contact on day:

Richard Cobb

Telephone number:

+447514468272

Booking information

Pre-booking requirement:

Book on day

Booking conditions:

All children under 14 to be accompanied by an adult

Booking contact name:

Richard Cobb

Booking telephone number:

+447514468272

Booking email:

[email protected]

Accessibility details

Parking Signposted next to School

Additional information

Max no of people per tour:

20

Est. tour duration:

1 hour(s) 30 minute(s)

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