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Queen's College is in West Midlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 52.4790°, -1.9038°.

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Queen's College

Queen's College — a garden in england-west-midlands, United Kingdom.

Birmingham Town Hall - geograph.org.uk - 2839132 — Philip Halling — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Typical visit: 1 h–2.5 h
Best time of year: Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)

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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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.

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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,…

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