Birmingham School of Art - Memorial Stone
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I was walking past it again after taking a detor from Chamberlain Square.
From the corner of Margaret Street and Edmund Street.
I was about to go down Eden Place.
The School of Art opposite BM&AG. This used to be The College of Art, part of the old Birmingham Polytechnic, which later became the UCE and now BCU.
The Birmingham School of Art was a municipal school based in the centre of Birmingham. Although the organisation was absorbed into the Birmingham Polytechnic in 1971, it is now part of Birmingham City University's Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, it is Grade I listed.
The building is on Margaret Street, and it remains part of the university's Department of Fine Art, but it is still commonly referred to its original title.
The building is a red Victorian Gothic structure, completed after the death of architect J. H. Chamberlain, by his partner William Martin and his son Frederick Martin. Foundation stone laid in 1884, completed a year later in 1885.
An extension was built in 1892-93 by Martin & Chamberlain running east down Cornwall Street. It was renovated and refurbished between 1992 and 1996 by Associated Architects.
A memorial stone on the School of Art building. With the names William Martin and John Henry Chamberlain (the architects).
It was placed by Richard Tangye in 1884. The mayor at the time was William Cook.
Also a Birmingham Forward coat of arms at the top.
When it was listed in 1970 it was listed as the Art And Design Annexe, Birmingham Polytechnic. Obviously now it is the Birmingham City University School of Art.
1881-85, by Martin and Chamberlain and extended along Cornwall Street in 1893.
Brick and terracotta with stone dressings and some tile decoration and with
mosaic in the central gable; tiled roof with bracketted eaves cornice and
decorative ridge tiles. In a Gothic style. Three and 4 storeys; 5 bays,
the central and outer ones all gabled though differently in width and height,
a facade as brilliantly successful as it is wholly asymmetrical. The centre
bay with the gabled entrance arch flanked by pinnacles and carrying a big
pointed arched opening within the gable above. The door behind gates and
up a steep flight of steps within a room with arches carried on granite columns
and a flat panelled wooden ceiling. Ground floor windows all with shouldered
and moulded heads. First floor windows all broad lancets in various groupings;
then, on the left a roundel by Barlow of Leicester with splended foliage in
an Art Nouveau style, a band of trefoil headed lancets with roundels below
and, on the right, a big canted bay window carried on a tripartite buttress
rising up from basement level and with a triplet of lancets above. Excellent
floral details in the spandrels. Inside, too, with excellent detailing everywhere
including mosaic floors, stained glass windows, fine metalwork and joinery
and carved capitals. The studios on the top floor large and functionally
constructed with big iron arches with quatrefoils. On the return, the 9 bays
of the extension differ from the 5 bays of the original in having figures
(by Benjamin Creswick) rather than foliage in the tympana of the arches.
Birmingham School of Art - Heritage Gateway
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10/22/2006
matthew goodrich, work in progress
art room 247
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10/25/2006
senior class, setting up for critique
art room 247
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10/25/2006
senior class, setting up for critique
art room 247
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10/27/2006
matthew goodrich, getting his hands dirty, work in progress
art room 247
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