Victoria Law Courts
Victoria Law Courts, Corporation Street B2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1075605
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Law Courts
- Statutory Address:
- Victoria Law Courts, Corporation Street B2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1075605
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Law Courts
- Statutory Address 1:
- Victoria Law Courts, Corporation Street B2
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Victoria Law Courts, Corporation Street B2
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Birmingham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 07313 87308
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12 November 2021 to update text and reformat to current standards
SP 0787 SW
30/3
City Centre
CORPORATION STREET (west side) B2
Victoria Law Courts
21.1.70
GV
I
1887-91 and won in competition by Sir Aston Webb and Ingress Bell. Red brick and terracotta; green stone tiled roof. Mostly two storeys; the main facade with a symmetrical centrepiece plus, on the left, a long wing essentially L-shaped and with two gables, one faced with a bow window, the other with a tall narrow bay with concave-sided gable and, on the right, a gabled bay. Everywhere elaborate detailing executed by Aumonier from the architects' designs. The centrepiece with central porch with richly decorated gabled and flanking turrets and, either side, four single-storeyed bays with cross-windows and big octagonal towers with pointed caps.
Above and behind this stands the Great Hall with steeply-sloping balustraded and crested roof and centrally-placed gabled clock stage. Good Arts and Crafts detail with figure sculpture by Harry Bates and Walter Crane. Inside, the Great Hall is a completely symmetrical room five bays by three. The round-headed windows are of three-lights with one transom on the long sides and of five lights with two transoms on the short sides. All have panel-type tracery and the roof is of hammerbeam construction. Despite this, the rich and strong detail, now in sand-coloured terracotta, is of a Spanish Plateresque kind. Between the windows are empty niches with their bases supported by very pretty putti.
Left and right are passages with stilted arches carrying first floor balconied passages, straight ahead a sumptuously ornate arch with concave-sided gable like the arch into the hall. A shallow tunnel-vaulted and richly-pannelled passage leads to the courtrooms beyond. Stained glass designed by Walter Lonsdale; five enormous crown-like chandeliers of excellent design. The courts themselves all with good joinery and fittings, modest in the smaller courts like Nos 1 and 3, grander in the larger ones like Nos 5 and 6 which have elaborately canopied judges' chairs and originally, as still in No 5 court, a Tudor-type ceiling with pendant bosses.
Listing NGR: SP0731387308
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 217012
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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