Looking at Buildings

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The Unity Centre (formerly Bole Hill School), Bole Hill Road

Hale had worked on Board Schools during his articles with Innocent & Brown and, while his own designs did not differ markedly from theirs in plan or elevationGlossary Term, he enlivened the buildings by effective use of detail. Bole Hill School of 1896 with its crow stepped gables and decorative scrolls was in the Renaissance style used by other architects of Sheffield Board Schools in the 1890s although the railings displayed some Art Nouveau influence.

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