Gardens · West Midlands
Queen's College
In or near Birmingham.
Queen's College — a garden in england-west-midlands, United Kingdom.
Philip Halling — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
- Nearest railway station
- Birmingham New Street · 0.4 km
- Dog-friendly
Getting there & planning your visit
To visit Queen's College in Birmingham, the nearest railway station is Birmingham New Street, located 0.4 km away. Entry is not specified as free or paid, and the site is not wheelchair accessible.
About
Queen's College is a garden of interest in england-west-midlands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Queen's College was a medical school in central Birmingham, England, and a predecessor college of the University of Birmingham. It was founded by surgeon William Sands Cox in 1825 as The Birmingham Medical School, a residential college for medical students. Cox's ambition was for the college to teach arts, law, engineering, architecture and general science. It was the first Birmingham institution to award degrees, through the University of London. Cox went on to found the Queen's Hospital in Bath Row (Drury & Bateman, opened 1841) as a practical resource for his medical students. The 1828 Medical School became the Birmingham Royal School of Medicine in 1836. It became the Queen's College in 1843 by royal charter.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
History
]] ]] ]] The college started life in Temple Row and Brittle Street (now obliterated by Snow Hill station). From the date of its Royal Charter in 1843 a large Gothic Revival building (Drury & Bateman, 1843–5) was constructed opposite the Town Hall between Paradise Street (the main entrance) and Swallow Street, where a chapel was built to St James. The building had large lecture theatre, laboratories, anatomical rooms, a dining hall and apartments for seventy students. The development of the college owed much to the legacy of Samuel Wilson Warneford. The historian William Whyte says that Warneford – in life "a grasping, avaricious, bigoted reactionary" – and John Owens – "a parsimonious,…
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 52.4790, -1.9038
- District
- Birmingham
- Parish
- Birmingham, unparished area
- Postcode
- B3 3DH
- Parliamentary constituency
- Birmingham Ladywood
- Nearest railway station
- Birmingham New Street — 0.4 km
- Official site
- www.bmag.org.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q7269947 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Queen's College, Birmingham (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Queen's College?
- Queen's College is in the West Midlands, United Kingdom (postcode B3 3DH), in the parish of Birmingham, unparished area.
- What is Queen's College?
- Queen's College — a garden in england-west-midlands, United Kingdom.
- How do I get to Queen's College?
- The nearest railway station is Birmingham New Street, about 0.4 km away. Drivers can use postcode B3 3DH.
- How do I get to Queen's College?
- The nearest railway station is Birmingham New Street, about 0.4 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode B3 3DH.