Art Gallery and Museum
ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM, LICHFIELD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1201828
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Art Gallery and Museum
- Statutory Address:
- ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM, LICHFIELD STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-07-29
- Reference:
- IOE01/03639/27
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1201828
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Art Gallery and Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM, LICHFIELD STREET
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.
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:
- ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM, LICHFIELD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Wolverhampton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 91498 98773
Details
WOLVERHAMPTON
SO9198NW LICHFIELD STREET 895-1/11/257 (North side) 12/02/75 Art Gallery and Museum
GV II*
Art gallery. 1883-5. By J.A.Chatwin of Birmingham. Ashlar with some polished granite; slate roof. Italianate style. Symmetrical composition: 2 storeys with basement, centrepiece has 3 ground-floor windows to each side and end terminal features. Dressed stone basement; plinth, channelled rustication and cornice to ground floor; plinth, entablature and balustraded parapet to 1st floor. Basement has sashed windows; ground floor has segmental-headed plate-glass windows with architraves; 1st floor has panels with relief friezes of famous men of science and art. Centrepiece has porch with paired granite Doric columns, paired also in depth, and balustraded parapet; round-headed entrance; 1st floor has Venetian window with rosettes to archivolt, console keystone and foliate spandrels; flanking paired granite Ionic columns with forward break in entablature support panel with paired pilasters and open pediment, cartouche and foliage. Terminals break forward, niches with segmental pediments to ground floor, paired Ionic columns above support forward break in entablature. Balustrade to area. Bowed angle bay has window as to centrepiece but with blind side lights, and similar niche above. Facade facing churchyard is similar, with 3-bay centrepiece flanked by 6 windows, and terminal features flanking centrepiece and to ends: Centrepiece has entrance with flanking paired Doric columns, side bays have segmental-headed windows to ground floor, those above round-headed, similar to centre window. Rear is plain, gabled range to right has large 1st floor windows. INTERIOR has stair with wrought-iron balustrade and panelled walls; top-lit 1st floor galleries. Built for the Wolverhampton Exhibition. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: P.317).
Listing NGR: SO9149098786
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378455
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 317
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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