Birmingham Roundabout » University http://www.birminghamroundabout.co.uk The history, culture, development & regeneration of Birmingham, UK Mon, 14 Mar 2011 01:49:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Birmingham School of Art – Margaret Street http://www.birminghamroundabout.co.uk/2009/birmingham-school-of-art-margaret-street/ http://www.birminghamroundabout.co.uk/2009/birmingham-school-of-art-margaret-street/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:17:44 +0000 Andy Doherty http://www.birminghamroundabout.co.uk/?p=822 Birmingham School of Art - Margaret Street

Birmingham School of Art - Margaret Street

A striking and impressive structure, the Birmingham School of Art building in Margaret Street was commissioned in 1877 to house the then-independent School in a purpose built environment designed, with typical Gothic overtones, by John Henry Chamberlain (a contemporary of, but no relation to, celebrated Mayor Joseph Chamberlain).

During the 1970s the building became co-opted by Birmingham Polytechnic’s Faculty of Art and Design and later encompassed BOurnville Art College too however, the building – following the abandonment of polytechnics and the more recent name change of the former UCE – the building is now home to the Birmingham City University School of Art and is quite rightly Grade I Listed.

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