unusual and attractive building. attractive and unusual

wall. These were once sophisticated tea rooms. tea sophisticated once were These wall.

foliage, is typical of this style. style. this of typical is foliage,

Victorian round-headed cast iron windows - a most most a - windows iron cast round-headed Victorian

oriel window and ‘C’ in an oval garland high on the front front the on high garland oval an in ‘C’ and window oriel

panels of ornate decorative decorative ornate of panels

1911, but closed in 1956. 1956. in closed but 1911,

chapel is the old Parsons Charity School, with its its with School, Charity Parsons old the is chapel

a small building distinguished by its delightful two storey storey two delightful its by distinguished building small a

detailing and terracotta terracotta and detailing

triangular pediment. The former cinema opened in in opened cinema former The pediment. triangular

appearance above the front door. Attached to the the to Attached door. front the above appearance

internal walls curve in a reversed ‘S’ shape. Cranage’s is is Cranage’s shape. ‘S’ reversed a in curve walls internal

pointed arches, Romanesque Romanesque arches, pointed

style, with its symmetrical façade, pilasters and bold bold and pilasters façade, symmetrical its with style,

west front faced in stucco and has a rather Byzantine Byzantine rather a has and stucco in faced front west

of the town’s original burgage plots and it is notable the the notable is it and plots burgage original town’s the of

Dudley’s Architectural Heritage Trail. Heritage Architectural ’s banks. The combination of of combination The banks.

This is another building adopting the Classical Classical the adopting building another is This

including Dudley. This Chapel is sandstone with a a with sandstone is Chapel This Dudley. including

frontage of the Little Barrel is of a width typical of one one of typical width a of is Barrel Little the of frontage

glance. Some examples of these buildings make up up make buildings these of examples Some glance. almost a house style for its its for style house a almost

13 strong in the industrial towns of the , Country, Black the of towns industrial the in strong CRITERION CINEMA CRITERION

the historic, though much-altered, high street. The The street. high much-altered, though historic, the

a number of attractive buildings well worth a second second a worth well buildings attractive of number a Lloyds developed what was was what developed Lloyds

time). The non-conformist tradition was particularly particularly was tradition non-conformist The time).

Two of the most notable buildings are on this side of of side this on are buildings notable most the of Two

bustling market town. Today’s town centre possesses possesses centre town Today’s town. market bustling During the Edwardian period, period, Edwardian the During

riot (a fate met by many non-conformist chapels at the the at chapels non-conformist many by met fate (a riot

THE LITTLE BARREL LITTLE THE

18th and 19th centuries, Dudley kept its image of a a of image its kept Dudley centuries, 19th and 18th

4 FORMER LLOYDS BANK LLOYDS FORMER

original chapel (founded in 1701) was burnt down in a a in down burnt was 1701) in (founded chapel original

through the Black Country’s industrial heyday in the the in heyday industrial Country’s Black the through CRANAGE’S AND CRANAGE’S

dates from 1717, built after the the after built 1717, from dates

with the growth of coal mining and ironworking, but but ironworking, and mining coal of growth the with

10 FORMER FORMER The current grade II listed building building listed II grade current The

The 17th century, however, saw a steady expansion expansion steady a saw however, century, 17th The

symbolising stability. stability. symbolising

7 UNITARIAN CHAPEL CHAPEL UNITARIAN

Victorian townhouses, which are now all listed grade II. II. grade listed all now are which townhouses, Victorian angled corner entrance, entrance, corner angled

as ‘back lanes’ set a limit to the built-up area. area. built-up the to limit a set lanes’ ‘back as buildings designed as prestigious Georgian and early early and Georgian prestigious as designed buildings squared pilasters above the the above pilasters squared

to the rear, which which rear, the to ball ornaments on the parapet. This is one of a row of of row a of one is This parapet. the on ornaments ball Corinthian columns and and columns Corinthian a major landmark. major a

long strips of land land of strips long period of expansion of the town. Noteworthy are the the are Noteworthy town. the of expansion of period has a large pediment on on pediment large a has roof turret, this building is is building this turret, roof

chateau-style roofs. roofs. chateau-style

frontages with with frontages This delightful eighteenth century house marks a a marks house century eighteenth delightful This built c 1930. The bank bank The 1930. c built windows and a circular circular a and windows

crowned with charming little little charming with crowned

formed of shop shop of formed

Wolverhampton Street was was Street Wolverhampton Modernist style with metal metal with style Modernist

3 CHADDESLEY HOUSE CHADDESLEY floors, framing the entrance. the framing floors, and first floor oriel windows, windows, oriel floor first and

‘burgage plots’ plots’ ‘burgage dominates the view up up view the dominates Emporium’. Built in the 1930’s 1930’s the in Built Emporium’.

gables with pairs of oriel windows on the upper upper the on windows oriel of pairs with gables bartizan (corner turret with windows) windows) with turret (corner bartizan

was flanked by by flanked was building which which building storey former ‘Cooperative ‘Cooperative former storey

red brick. It incorporates a pair of curved Flemish Flemish curved of pair a incorporates It brick. red displayed in its splendid spired spired splendid its in displayed

12th century. It It century. 12th This truly imposing imposing truly This standing in complete contrast to it, is the tiled, three three tiled, the is it, to contrast complete in standing

the English free style of architecture, in stone and and stone in architecture, of style free English the retains its Victorian Gothic character, character, Gothic Victorian its retains

Paganel in the the in Paganel

since 1949. since On the opposite corner to St Thomas’s Church and and Church Thomas’s St to corner opposite the On

Fountain Arcade, which was built in 1925, exhibits exhibits 1925, in built was which Arcade, Fountain is a landmark in Dudley. The Crown Crown The Dudley. in landmark a is 12 BARCLAY’S BANK BARCLAY’S

out by Gervase Gervase by out

and pediments and has been a grade II* listed building building listed II* grade a been has and pediments and

In direct contrast to its Georgian neighbour, the the neighbour, Georgian its to contrast direct In appearance and prominent location, location, prominent and appearance 9 THE COOPERATIVE EMPORIUM COOPERATIVE THE

planned town laid laid town planned

Anne style, in red brick with a prominent central bay bay central prominent a with brick red in style, Anne

listed building, with its striking striking its with building, listed

SQUARE ENTRANCE SQUARE MARKET the medieval medieval the a rich merchant. It is a good example of the Queen Queen the of example good a is It merchant. rich a

Built in 1895, the grade II II grade the 1895, in Built

the heart of of heart the Finch House was built in 1707 for John Finch, who was was who Finch, John for 1707 in built was House Finch 15

FOUNT AIN ARCADE, AIN

6 THE CROWN INN CROWN THE

place was at at was place

listing. listing.

2 FINCH HOUSE FINCH

style in Dudley. Both are listed grade II. II. grade listed are Both Dudley. in style medieval market market medieval

technology justifies its grade II* II* grade its justifies technology

This is the last remaining shopfront of this this of shopfront remaining last the is This The broad broad The

cast iron. This very early use of iron iron of use early very This iron. cast

elaborate panels beneath the window. window. the beneath panels elaborate

Crown Inn. Crown roof spans and window tracery of of tracery window and spans roof

and bevelling and the jeweller’s name on on name jeweller’s the and bevelling and of the period the of

AROUND A CENTRAL MARKET PLACE. PLACE. MARKET CENTRAL A AROUND

‘Commercial Gothic’ style of the adjacent adjacent the of style Gothic’ ‘Commercial stone. It is constructed with a frame, frame, a with constructed is It stone.

in 1955 and demolished in 1958. in demolished and 1955 in

Nouveau shop-front, with curved glass glass curved with shop-front, Nouveau

windows and eaves balustrade are typical features features typical are balustrade eaves and windows

This building contrasts well with the the with well contrasts building This a light sandstone, probably Tixall Tixall probably sandstone, light a

BOTTOM TO TOP CHURCHES AND AND CHURCHES TOP TO BOTTOM

acres of grounds. It was purchased by the Corporation Corporation the by purchased was It grounds. of acres

Street. The jeweller’s has a fine Art Art fine a has jeweller’s The Street.

cornice (projecting parapet) above the second floor floor second the above parapet) (projecting cornice

flush of Edwardian Classical architecture. architecture. Classical Edwardian of flush by the architect William Brooks in in Brooks William architect the by

Horsley House, a Victorian mansion originally set in two two in set originally mansion Victorian a House, Horsley

TYPE HOUSES, STRAGGLING FROM FROM STRAGGLING HOUSES, TYPE

lined both sides of Wolverhampton Wolverhampton of sides both lined square frames at third floor level. The bold stone stone bold The level. floor third at frames square

the corners) and parapet typical of the last last the of typical parapet and corners) the as Top Church, was built in 1815-18 1815-18 in built was Church, Top as

In the 19th century it was the gardens associated with with associated gardens the was it century 19th the In

buildings, similar to those which once once which those to similar buildings, grandly pedimented ones at first floor to the simple, simple, the to floor first at ones pedimented grandly

LARGELY COMPOSED OF RURAL HALL HALL RURAL OF COMPOSED LARGELY other features such as quoins (the raised blockwork at at blockwork raised (the quoins as such features other The present church, locally known known locally church, present The

hide evidence of earlier timber-framed timber-framed earlier of evidence hide

progressively reducing depth of window from the the from window of depth reducing progressively

Street) and country (wider part). (wider country and Street) to the wall) and a fine stone coat-of-arms. It also has has also It coat-of-arms. stone fine a and wall) the to complete late Georgian rebuilding. rebuilding. Georgian late complete CHANGED LITTLE. LITTLE. CHANGED

THE TOWN WAS WAS TOWN THE

shop and the Shrewsbury Arms pub, pub, Arms Shrewsbury the and shop

the period, thus is grade II listed. Note the the Note listed. II grade is thus period, the

medieval town (the narrow part of Wolverhampton Wolverhampton of part narrow (the town medieval pediment mounted on pilasters (columns attached attached (columns pilasters on mounted pediment the medieval church survived a a survived church medieval the

UP TO THE CIVIL WAR, DUDLEY HAS HAS DUDLEY WAR, CIVIL THE TO UP

and later shop-fronts of the jeweller’s jeweller’s the of shop-fronts later and and is a good example of the architecture of of architecture the of example good a is and

its origin, the street still marks the transition between between transition the marks still street the origin, its grade II listed building boasts a huge, off-centre off-centre huge, a boasts building listed II grade A Becket, only the stone crypt of of crypt stone the only Becket, A

The 18th century first floor facades facades floor first century 18th The Island) dates from the early to mid 19th century century 19th mid to early the from dates Island)

FROM SAXON TIMES AS “DODD’S LEY” LEY” “DODD’S AS TIMES SAXON FROM “innidge” - the ditch outside the town walls. Whatever Whatever walls. town the outside ditch the - “innidge” building is very much in the Classical manner. This This manner. Classical the in much very is building originally dedicated to St Thomas Thomas St to dedicated originally

The elegant building (currently a branch of River River of branch a (currently building elegant The

“Inhedge” is variously a medieval field name or else the the else or name field medieval a variously is “Inhedge” Though built in 1909, this imposing sandstone-faced sandstone-faced imposing this 1909, in built Though Founded in the 12th century and and century 12th the in Founded OLVERHAMPTON STREET OLVERHAMPTON W

INTRODUCTION

14 11 8 5 1 TREET S HIGH 222A/223 2 AND 1 N CHURCH THOMAS’S ST OFFICE POST HEAD FORMER INHEDGE THE (TOP CHURCH) CHURCH) (TOP O

16 DRINKING FOUNTAIN 17 LONG ENTRY 20 HALL STREET JUNCTION WITH 23 EARL OF DUDLEY’S STATUE In 1860, the 17th century town hall was demolished This passage runs from Market THE MARKET PLACE and replaced by the present fountain. Its purpose, Place to King Street, the length Erected in 1888, the grade II listed DUDLEY Note the Victorian red brick upper storeys of the apart from being decorative, was to discourage of a medieval burgage plot, statue of the first hereditary Earl of buildings on the corner and the cast iron enamelled drunkenness by supplying fresh drinking water. sinuously curving in a reversed ‘S’ Dudley was designed by C B Birch sign for ‘Hall Street’. This block is all that survives and is of marble standing on a granite ARCH TECTURAL shape. This is typical of the curve from this historic street mostly swept away by the It was commissioned by the Earl of Dudley and first created when ploughing with pedestal, itself on a stone base. construction of the Churchill Centre in the 1960s. The HERITAGE TRAIL flowed in 1867 when it was ceremonially presented teams of oxen to create individual street’s alignment was incorporated in the new design to the people of Dudley by Countess Georgina. The strips in medieval fields. Most and can still be followed through the precinct. fountain is listed grade II* and was designed and of the property boundaries off There’s lots to see and do sculpted in flamboyant Italian Renaissance style by the High Street and Market Place 24 COTTAGES AT James Forsyth who sculpted the Perseus Fountain at still exhibit this feature, which NOS 6, 7 AND 7A in Dudley borough Witley Court, . suggests the Norman planned THE BROADWAY town was originally laid out over CORNER OF STREET the arable fields of Anglo Saxon 21 The Broadway was originally Dudley. AND NEW STREET Downing Street and was first driven through to link Castle Street to Tower This building (currently Ladbrokes) was formerly the Street in 1839. The northern ends Hen and Chickens pub, rebuilt and extended in1932 to of both streets were cut off from the designs by A T Butler. town itself and Lord Dudley then took them into the Castle grounds, building a new boundary wall and 18 FORMER WOOLWORTH’S entrance gates. The grade II listed 22 ST EDMUND’S CHURCH row of cottages at 6, 7 and 7a The Looking above the modern shopfront, note how Broadway represents a captured visit www.discoverdudley.org.uk the upper floors present a striking architectural Known locally as Bottom remnant of Castle Street and although they were rebuilt composition in streamlined Art Deco style, Church, St Edmund’s was in brick in the mid 19th century, some still incorporate DudleyBorough dudleymbc incorporating chevron patterns typical of the early Dudley’s oldest church until it fragments of limestone walling from earlier cottages on 20th century Woolworth’s ‘house style’. was demolished in 1646 during the same alignment the Civil War by the Royalist defenders of Dudley Castle, Further visitor information visit in order to clear their field of fire. The church was rebuilt Dudley Council Plus, 259 Castle St, Dudley DY1 1LQ 19 MARKET PLACE through public subscription 25 FELLOW’S CLUB AND THE Discover over 900 years of Tel: 0300 5552345 A market has been regularly held here since Medieval in 1724 in the Palladian style FORMER ZOO OFFICES days when Dudley was a country market town. For information about Dudley’s historic environment visit and is thought to be designed The Gothic former Zoo offices, dating from the mid architectural history along Originally the Town Hall and small shops occupied www.dudley.gov.uk/resident/planning/historic-environment by Thomas Archer. It is listed 19th century, and Fellows Restaurant with its embattled the central space and excavations in 2014 revealed grade II*. parapet are both listed grade II and catch the eye at the our heritage trail the buildings composed of limestone, a material top of The Broadway. commonly used in Dudley from the 17th century onwards. 26 GREEN MAN ENTRY 30 OLD POLICE BUILDINGS 35 DIXONS HOUSE Built in around 1850 in the ‘Baronial Gothic’ style, In 1703, this grade II listed ‘Queen Anne’ style structure Running from the Malt Shovel Public House on Tower these grade II listed buildings originally sat alongside was probably the first building to be erected on the Street to Castle Street, this ancient thoroughfare, like a similarly styled Council House built in 1858. The Old open fields beyond Priory Street. It was built for John ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE TRAIL MAP Long Entry, runs the length of a burgage plot. It is Police Buildings were designed to mimic the gatehouse Dixon, a wealthy glassmaker whose glasshouse was paved with the dark grey Rowley Rag setts, from Turner’s of a medieval castle with towers, battlements and great located at Dixons Green. Hill, Rowley Regis - a traditional material for the Black gates suggestive of a portcullis. Such architecture clearly Country. Within the arched passageway, note the makes reference to the authority of the state as befitted limestone walling at the base on the right hand side. the headquarters of Dudley’s police force. This suggests there were stone structures here prior to the construction of the fine grade II listed Georgian brick 36 HOLLOWAY CHAMBERS building which fronts onto Castle Street today, one of Though built in the same year as the nearby former Head which was once a pub called the Green Man. 31 DUDLEY TOWN HALL, CORONERS Post Office (1909), this COURT AND WAR MEMORIAL TOWER building demonstrates a much more eclectic With the slightly later Council House, on style, with even a hint of Priory Road (above), this group of buildings Art Nouveau about the (now listed grade II*) was designed by corner window to Court the architects Harvey and Wicks. The Passage. The inscription buildings were opened by the then Prime “God Helps Those Who Minister, Stanley Baldwin, in 1928. The Help Themselves” is War Memorial Tower has a fine carving typical of the ideals of the of St George and the Dragon above the Midland Counties Mutual main window facing Priory Street, whilst the Benefit Society, for whom balcony below carried a moving inscription Holloway Chambers was written by Thomas Hardy for this memorial. built. 27 BAYLIES’S CHARITY SCHOOL

The original school was founded in 32 PUBLIC LIBRARY 1732 for 50 boys, but the intake rose to 37 STONE SQUARE 200 by 1824 when the present structure, Replacing the original which is grade II listed, was built in Free Library, the present This was the site of the Dudley Flint Glassworks, Classical form. The statues of boys in structure was built in 1909 established in 1781 by Abiather Hawkes. It produced the niches above the doors are made of in Edwardian Baroque style highly decorative glassware, much of which was sold Coadestone. This is an artificial stone with a grant of £7,500 from abroad. The demolition of the glassworks in 1886 developed by Eleanor Coade in the Andrew Carnegie, the created Stone Street Square whose western edge was 18th century, widely used for all kinds American millionaire. The established in 1892 with the building of a new town fire of architectural ornament. The statues central figure mounted at station. Archaeological excavations in 2003 uncovered of these boys are the earliest surviving the top of the building represents philosophy, whilst the circular foundations of the old glass cone and its public statues in the town of Dudley. either side of the pediment are figures of Literature and central melting furnace - you can see their outlines Science. The building is grade II listed. marked out in the square’s surface.

28 THE POLICE STATION 33 FORMER DUDLEY MUSEUM 38 GRIFFIN PUBLIC HOUSE The new Dudley Police Station AND ART GALLERY Midway up Stone Street is this fine example of a began construction during the ‘reformed’ public house, dating from 1935 and probably The red brick and terracotta of the former museum outbreak of the Second World designed by A T and Bertram Butler in the Arts and Crafts was built in 1883 as the Dudley School of Art and Free War and was opened in 1941. vernacular style. Its facade incorporates some typical Library. It features an impressive corner demi-bastion, The sculptures at the entrance Arts and Crafts architectural features, such as mullioned below which is a set of meteorological instruments are of two policemen, one of windows and a steep stone gable, all within an ashlar donated by James Smellie to commemorate his wife, the 19th century and the other frontage which gives a handsome appearance. It exhibits mayoress of Dudley in 1925-26. from the 20th century, both real craftsmanship in the use of high quality materials. carved by a local artist, Alan Bridgewater. On either side of the entrance are two stone lions with cubs carved by Charles Upton.

29 COUNCIL HOUSE The new Council House, built in Priory Road in 1934, was designed by the architects Harvey and Wicks as part of a civic ensemble along with the Town Hall, Coroners Court and War Memorial Tower (see 39 FOUNTAIN ARCADE – below). The grade II listed building is characterised TOWER STREET ENTRANCE by numerous stylistic references to the Arts and Crafts movement, particularly in the many finely detailed A substantial malt house and private dwelling once sculptural elements, including the carved stone 34 COUNTY COURT, PRIORY STREET stood on this site before Alderman Tanfield developed heads of contemporary aldermen on the columns at his ambitious shopping arcade in 1925, making liberal the main entrance. Originally, major crimes perpetrated in Dudley were use of faience tiles and artificial granite columns. tried at Worcester (the County Town), but by the 1850s the fast rising population justified the construction of a County Court. Built in 1858, this grade II listed building, with its ornate Classical architecture complete with figurehead keyblocks, is highly reminiscent of 40 THE SARACEN’S HEAD an Italian Renaissance palace. Notice the tram wire Whilst the present façade dates from the mid 19th brackets high up on the facade. century, the pub has 18th century origins. Even earlier elements of the structure are stone built, as can be observed on the gable end. The building is listed grade II.