School of Jewellery, Vittoria Street, Birmingham
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School of Jewellery, Vittoria Street, Birmingham
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 26 Aug 2011
A showy Venetian- or Lombardo-Gothic facade with stripey voussoirs and colonnettes between the first floor windows. It was built as a goldsmith's factory to the designs of J.G. Bland, 1865, pre-dating the school which moved here in 1890. The rather regrettable top storey dates from 1906. Grade II listed. In a way it still functions as a jewellery school but now as part of the University of Central England's Birmingham Institute of Art and Design.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.486465
Longitude
-1.911451
