Handsworth Hall (Birmingham)

United Kingdom / England / Hockley / Birmingham / Friary Road
 Grade II Listed (UK), educational building, 1881_construction
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Former Methodist Theological College and then part of Aston University until recently. Finished 1881, by Goddard and Ball. Brick with purple diaper and butt terracotta dressings. In a Perpendicular style. Nine 2-storey bays either side of a tower with gabled cross-wings with large transomed windows left and right, that on the left the great hall. The windows all 2-lights and with 2-centred arched heads. Terracotta banding. The tower of 4 storeys plus a deep parapet with big polygonal clasping turrets terminating in cupolas. Big 2-storeyed oriel window above the entrance. Above the oriel, 2 tall mullioned and transomed windows with 4-centred arched heads. Parapet on elaborate corbelling.

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Coordinates:   52°30'59"N   1°56'6"W
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