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Architectural Building Attractions In Birmingham

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Birmingham is the second-most populous city in the United Kingdom, after London, and the most populous city in the English Midlands. With an estimated population of 1,137,100 as of 2017, Birmingham is the cultural, social, financial and commercial centre of the Midlands. It is the main centre of the West Midlands conurbation, which is the third most populated urban area in the United Kingdom, with a population in 2011 of 2,440,986. The wider Birmingham metropolitan area is the second largest in the United Kingdom with a population of over 3.7 million. Birmingham is frequently referred to as the United Kingdom's “second city”.A market town in the me...
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Architectural Building Attractions In Birmingham

  • 2. Highbury Hall Birmingham
    Highbury Hall, now a Grade II* listed building, was commissioned as his Birmingham residence by Joseph Chamberlain in 1878, two years after he became member of parliament for Birmingham. It took its name from the Highbury area of London, where Chamberlain had lived as a child. The architect was John Henry Chamberlain , who incorporated much terracotta decoration.
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  • 3. Selly Manor Birmingham
    Selly Oak is an industrial and residential area in south west Birmingham, England. The area gives its name to Selly Oak ward and includes the neighbourhoods of: Bournbrook, Selly Park, and Ten Acres. The adjoining wards of Edgbaston and Harborne are to the north of the Bourn Brook, which was the former county boundary, and to the south are Weoley, and Bournville. A district committee serves the four wards of Selly Oak, Billesley, Bournville and Brandwood. The same wards form the Birmingham Selly Oak , represented by Steve McCabe . Selly Oak is connected to Birmingham by the Pershore Road and the Bristol Road . The Worcester and Birmingham Canal and the Birmingham Cross-City Railway Line run across the Local District Centre. The 2001 Population Census recorded 25,792 people living in Selly ...
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  • 4. Church of St. Alban the Martyr Birmingham
    The Catholic Church in England and Wales is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in full communion with the Pope. It traces its history to Catholic Christendom, the Western Latin Church, particularized and recorded in Roman Britain as far back as the 1st century, and later judicially bonded to the See of Rome in the 6th century, when Gregory the Great through his Benedictine, Roman missionary, Augustine of Canterbury, established in 597 AD a direct link from the Kingdom of Kent to the Holy See. This ancient link to Irenaeus's source of Christian guidance, the See of Rome, has enriched its inter-church identity, not only across Britain and continental Europe, but also and especially globally within what is sometimes referred to as the Catholic Communion of Churches.Today, the English Catho...
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  • 6. Birmingham Municipal Bank Birmingham
    The Birmingham Municipal Bank was a savings bank in the city of Birmingham, England. It was created as the Birmingham Corporation Savings Bank by a 1916 Act of Parliament, to raise money to aid World War I. It was the only municipal bank in the country.
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  • 7. Central Methodist Church Birmingham
    The Methodist Central Hall, 196-224 Corporation Street, Birmingham, England, is a three storey red brick and terracotta Grade II* listed building with a distinctive tower at the northern end of Corporation Street, opposite the Victoria Law Courts. It is located within the Steelhouse Conservation Area. The terracotta was manufactured by the renowned firm of Gibbs and Canning Limited of Tamworth, which also produced decorative works for 179-203 Corporation Street and the interior of the Victoria Law Courts in Birmingham and the Natural History Museum in London. Its main hall seats 2,000 and it has over thirty other rooms including three school halls. It cost £96,165. The street level has twelve bays of shops . The building also runs along Ryder Street and has more original shop fronts. It w...
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  • 8. Town Hall Birmingham Birmingham
    Birmingham Town Hall is a Grade I listed concert hall and venue for popular assemblies opened in 1834 and situated in Victoria Square, Birmingham, England.The first of the monumental town halls that would come to characterise the cities of Victorian England, Birmingham Town Hall was also the first significant work of the 19th-century revival of Roman architecture, a style chosen here in the context of the highly charged radicalism of 1830s Birmingham for its republican associations. The design was based on the proportions of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in the Roman Forum. Perfect and aloof on a tall, rusticated podium, it marked an entirely new concept in English architecture.It was created as a home for the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival established in 1784, the purpose of which ...
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  • 9. Moor Street Railway Station Birmingham
    Birmingham Moor Street is one of three main railway stations in the city centre of Birmingham, England, along with Birmingham New Street and Birmingham Snow Hill. Today's Moor Street station is a combination of the original station, opened in 1909 by the Great Western Railway as a terminus for local trains, and a newer Moor Street station with through platforms, a short distance from the original, which opened in 1987, replacing the original. The two were combined into one station in 2002, when the original was reopened and restored, and the newer station rebuilt in 1930s style. Moor Street has become more important in recent years; two of the original terminus platforms were reopened in 2010, and the station is now the terminus of many Chiltern Railways services from London Marylebone, as...
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  • 10. Hall of Memory Birmingham
    The Hall of Memory in Centenary Square, Birmingham, England, designed by S. N. Cooke and W. N. Twist, is a war memorial erected 1922–25, by John Barnsley and Son, to commemorate the 12,320 Birmingham citizens who died in World War I.Built directly over a filled-in canal basin of Gibson's Arm, it was the first structure in an area purchased by the council for the creation of a grand civic scheme to include new council offices, the mayor's residence, a public library, and a concert hall. The scheme was abandoned after the commencement of World War II with only half of the planned Baskerville House having been built. Made from Portland stone, from the Isle of Portland in Dorset, the foundation stone was laid by HRH The Prince of Wales on 12 June 1923 and it was opened by Prince Arthur of Co...
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  • 11. Victoria Law Courts Birmingham
    Victoria is a British television drama series created and principally written by Daisy Goodwin, which stars Jenna Coleman as Queen Victoria. The series premiered in the United Kingdom on 28 August 2016 on ITV, and in the United States on 15 January 2017 on PBS, which supported its production as part of the Masterpiece anthology. The first series consisted of eight episodes and concluded on 9 October 2016. In September 2016, ITV renewed Victoria for an eight-episode second series, which premiered in the UK on 27 August 2017 and was followed by a 2017 Christmas special. In December 2017, Victoria was renewed for a third series.
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  • 12. The Cube Birmingham
    Mailbox Birmingham is an upmarket shopping and office development in the city centre of Birmingham, England. It serves as the base for BBC Birmingham and houses one of seven Harvey Nichols department stores in the United Kingdom. The Mailbox is about 300 metres long from front to back including The Cube. Above the front shops it has an additional 6 floors which includes a Malmaison hotel and residential apartments. The Worcester and Birmingham Canal passes along the back with a number of restaurants overlooking.
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  • 13. Rotunda Birmingham
    A rotunda is any building with a circular ground plan, and sometimes covered by a dome. It can also refer to a round room within a building . The Pantheon in Rome is a famous rotunda. A Band Rotunda is a circular bandstand, usually with a dome.
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  • 14. Department of Art Birmingham
    This is a list of department stores of the United Kingdom. In the case of department store groups, the location of the flagship store is given. This list does not include large specialist stores, which sometimes resemble department stores. The list is broken into currently trading ; defunct groups and defunct .
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