29-570: Weoley may refer to: Weoley Castle , a residential suburban district of the City of Birmingham, England. Weoley Castle (house) , a ruined moated and fortified medieval manor house, which gave its name to the district of Weoley Castle, Birmingham, England. Weoley (ward) , a local council electoral ward covering the district of Weoley Castle as well as neighbouring areas in Birmingham, England. Weoley Park ,
58-427: A Fine Fare supermarket and apartments. A replacement, Weoley Castle Community Church was built behind it which opened on 6 June 1970. The Weoley Cinema on Barnes Hill with a seating capacity of 1,000 opened on 1 August 1936. It was designed by the architect H.W. Way Lovegrove LRIBA and the contractors were Hodge Brothers of Northfield. It was closed in the 1960s and demolished. A temporary library opened in 1952 in
87-594: A former medieval manorial hunting park, which previously surrounded the fortified medieval manor house of Weoley Castle. Manor of Weoley , a former medieval feudal manor, originally in north Worcestershire , England. Richard Weoley, Master of the Worshipful Company of Founders in 1631 and 1640. The Weoley Cup , a 15th-century Venetian glass goblet presented to the Founders' Company by its former Master, Richard Weoley. See also [ edit ] Weeley ,
116-474: A further gallery. Seven galleries had to be rebuilt after being bombed in 1940. Immediately after World War II "Mighty Mary" Mary Woodall (1901–1988) was appointed keeper of art under director, Trenchard Cox . Woodall and Cox, through their links to the London art world, were able to attract exhibitions, much publicity and donations to the gallery. In 1956, Woodall replaced Cox when the latter became Director of
145-400: A recreation area with benches trees and mown grass. Round the recreation area are a health centre, shops selling economically priced goods and a market. Shops have also been there since at least the 1930s. The area takes its name from the ruins of a moated and fortified manor house , now owned by Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery . The castle ruins are a Grade II listed building , and
174-606: A result of a £1.5m cut to Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery's budget in 2010–11. The last BM&AG exhibition that took place in the Waterhall at that time was the Steve McCurry retrospective that ran from 26 June to 17 October 2010. The Waterhall and the Gas Hall have reopened for exhibitions throughout the year. BM&AG, formerly managed by Birmingham City Council , is now, with Thinktank, part of Birmingham Museums Trust . Due to
203-629: A small village in Tendring, East Essex, England Weeley Festival , a British rock festival that took place in 1971 near the village of Weeley Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Weoley . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Weoley&oldid=590709740 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
232-506: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Weoley Castle Weoley Castle is a residential suburban district in south-west Birmingham , England. The area is part of the Weoley local authority electoral ward , and also comes under the Northfield local council constituency . The suburb of Weoley Castle is bordered by Selly Oak to
261-520: Is located in Chamberlain Square below the clock-tower known locally as " Big Brum ". The entrance hall memorial reads 'By the gains of Industry we promote Art'. The Extension Block has entrances via the Gas Hall in Edmund Street and Great Charles Street. Waterhall, the original gas department, has its own entrance on Edmund Street. In October 2010, the Waterhall closed as a BM&AG gallery as
290-609: Is now on display in The Birmingham History Galleries , a permanent exhibition on the third floor of the museum. In November 2014, a dedicated gallery was opened to display the Staffordshire Hoard . Discovered in the nearby village of Hammerwich in 2009, it was the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found. In respect of local and industrial history, the tower of the Birmingham HP Sauce factory
319-465: Is open daily. A recent Heritage Lottery, Birmingham City Council and English Heritage funded project has led to consolidation of the ruins and the creation of a community education centre where schools sessions, community meetings and events are held. The ruins are supported by a volunteer group called the Castle Keepers. Mitchells and Butlers were given permission in 1933 to transfer the licence from
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#1732844382651348-733: Is run by Birmingham Museums Trust , the largest independent museums trust in the United Kingdom, which also runs eight other museums around the city. Entrance to the Museum and Art Gallery is free, but some major exhibitions in the Gas Hall incur an entrance fee. In 1829, the Birmingham Society of Artists created a private exhibition building in New Street , Birmingham while the historical precedent for public education around that time produced
377-572: The Factory Act 1833 , the first instance of Government funding for education. The Museums Act 1845 "[empowered] boroughs with a population of 10,000 or more to raise a 1/2d for the establishment of museums." In 1864, the first public exhibition room, was opened when the Society and other donors presented 64 pictures as well as the Sultanganj Buddha to Birmingham Council and these were housed in
406-515: The Free Library building but, due to lack of space, the pictures had to move to Aston Hall . Joseph Henry Nettlefold (1827–1881) bequeathed twenty-five pictures by David Cox to Birmingham Art Gallery on the condition it opened on Sundays. In June 1880, local artist Allen Edward Everitt accepted the post of honorary curator of the Free Art Gallery, a municipal institution which was
435-467: The Swan with Two Necks, Aston Street, Birmingham (which was scheduled for demolition for a new fire station) to a new Weoley Castle public house to be built at the corner of Somerford Road and Shenley Lane.. A Congregational Church was designed by Birmingham architects Harrison and Tracey and built on Castle Square in 1936. However, this became too costly to maintain, so it was demolished in 1969 to make way for
464-596: The Victoria and Albert Museum . John Woodward (1921–1988) was Keeper of Art from 1956 to 1964. In 1951, the Museum of Science and Industry , Birmingham was incorporated into BM&AG. In 2001, the Science Museum closed with some exhibits being transferred to Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum , which was operated by the independent Thinktank Trust that has since become part of Birmingham Museums Trust. The main entrance
493-482: The Weoley Hill Community Centre. This temporary arrangement lasted until 1991 when a new purpose-built library was opened at a cost of £750,000. The Library located at Weoley Castle Square serves the district. It includes a local history section, a Pre-school playgroup , drop in advice from Age UK and councillors' surgeries. Weoley Castle Museum is a visitor attraction that is also located in
522-740: The Younger . The collection of antiquities includes coins from ancient times through to the Middle Ages , artefacts from Ancient India and Central Asia , Ancient Cyprus and Ancient Egypt . The museum also holds 28 pieces of Nimrud ivories from the British School of Archaeology in Iraq . There is material from Classical Greece , the Roman Empire and Latin America. There is also mediaeval material, much of which
551-582: The corporation advertised the first tender for the erection of 1,200 houses in the Woodbrooke Valley section of the new estate and in April 1932 another tender was advertised for 620 houses on the California Valley West section. On 23 October 1933 the 40,000th council house in Birmingham was officially opened at 30 Hopstone Road by the later Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain . This made Birmingham
580-607: The council, the Prince of Wales officially opened the new gallery on Saturday 28 November 1885. The Museum and Art Gallery occupied an extended part of the Council House above the new offices of the municipal Gas Department (which in effect subsidised the venture thus circumventing the Public Libraries Act 1850 which limited the use of public funds on the arts). The building was designed by Yeoville Thomason . The metalwork for
609-402: The east, Harborne to the north, Bartley Green to the west, and Weoley Hill and Shenley Fields to the south. Weoley Castle Square is a shopping area at the heart of Weoley Castle. It includes a very large traffic island and during the 1950s prefabricated bungalows of a type known locally as 'prefabs' were on this central island. Today Birmingham City Council maintains the island as
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#1732844382651638-709: The first local authority in Britain to build 40,000 council properties – just 15 years after building its first. The completed Weoley Castle housing estate consisted of nearly 3,000 homes. Buses serving Weoley Castle area include: Birmingham Museum %26 Art Gallery Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery ( BM&AG ) is a museum and art gallery in Birmingham , England. It has a collection of international importance covering fine art , ceramics , metalwork , jewellery , natural history , archaeology , ethnography , local history and industrial history . The museum/gallery
667-531: The forerunner of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Jesse Collings , Mayor of Birmingham 1878–79, was responsible for free libraries in Birmingham and was the original proponent of the Birmingham Art Gallery. A gift of £10,000 (equivalent to £1,100,000 in 2020) made by Sir Richard and George Tangye started a new drive for an art gallery and, in 1885, following other donations and £40,000 from
696-588: The global pandemic, the museum closed in October 2020. The museum remained closed throughout 2021 as part of a project to rewire the Council complex that houses the museum. The museum partially reopened in April 2022 with a number of pop-up exhibitions. It will close again in December 2022 ahead of a full reopening expected in 2024. The gallery's Round Room, Industrial Gallery, and Bridge Gallery reopened on 24 October 2024, as did
725-402: The new building (and adjoining Council House) was by the Birmingham firm of Hart, Son, Peard & Co. and extended to both the interior and exterior including the distinctive cast-iron columns in the main gallery space for the display of decorative art. The lofty portico, surmounted by a pediment by Francis John Williamson , representing an allegory of Birmingham contributing to the fine arts,
754-524: The site became a Scheduled Ancient Monument in 1934. The castle's individual name is from the Old English "Wēo-lēah" meaning "temple clearing". Before the Christian era there may have been a heathen temple here. Between 1960 and 1961 excavations took place at Weoley Castle which unearthed a 13th-century wooden building. The substantial stone remains and the moat can be seen from the viewing platform which
783-547: The suburb. Weoley Castle Walkway is an area of recreation ground that is located mainly within Selly Oak and Quinton . The Lapal Canal is within the grounds and is maintained by the Lapal Canal Trust Weoley Castle was mostly developed for council housing during the 1930s. Birmingham Corporation purchased the land at Weoley Castle in 1930 in preparation for a new housing estate of 2,718 houses. In March 1931
812-540: The tearoom and shop. The Art Gallery is most noted for its extensive collections of paintings ranging from the 14th to the 21st century. They include works by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the world's largest collection of works by Edward Burne-Jones . Notable painters in oil include the following: Paintings from the Dutch School include a painting each from Jan van Goyen and Willem van de Velde
841-494: Was together with the clock-tower considered the "most conspicuous features" of the exterior upon its opening. By 1900 the collection, especially its contemporary British holdings, was deemed by the Magazine of Art to be "one of the finest and handsomest" in Britain. Until 1946, when property taxes were voted towards acquisitions, the museum relied on the generosity of private individuals. John Feeney provided £50,000 to provide
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