Victoria Law Courts, Birmingham
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Victoria Law Courts, Birmingham
Image: © Ann Taken: 19 Mar 2011
The Law Courts building on Corporation Street, Birmingham is Grade I listed red brick and terracotta that now houses Birmingham Magistrates' Court. Designed by Aston Webb & Ingress Bell of London after an open competition in 1886, assessed by architect Alfred Waterhouse, to provide the first assize courts in the rapidly growing town of Birmingham, it is faced entirely in deep red terracotta from the clay of Ruabon in North Wales and covered in intricate ornamentation. A statue of Queen Victoria by Harry Bates surmounts the main entrance. Other figures are by sculptor William Silver Frith to designs by Walter Crane. The rear of the building is less elaborately decorated.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.483484
Longitude
-1.893493