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The Wolverhampton Art Gallery on Lichfield Street in Wolverhampton. It is next to St Peter's Gardens (part of which is a war memorial garden).

The art gallery building is Grade II* listed.

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   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

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Source: English Heritage

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