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Cathedral
St Philip's Cathedral
Baroque church by Thomas Archer, consecrated in 1715 and a cathedral since 1905. It is Grade I listed.
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City Centre & Bullring: things to do
Places worth your time in City Centre & Bullring
Top places
Things to do in City Centre & Bullring
Landmarks, museums, parks and viewpoints in and around the area.
Museum
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Fine and decorative art, local history and the Staffordshire Hoard; reopened galleries include the Pre-Raphaelites and Wild City for families.
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Civic building
Council House
Home of Birmingham City Council, with its council chamber and banqueting suite, facing Victoria Square.
Concert hall
Birmingham Town Hall
Concert hall opened in 1834 on Victoria Square, a Grade I listed building.
Fountain sculpture
The River
Fountain artwork in Victoria Square, known locally as the Floozie in the Jacuzzi.
Memorial fountain
Chamberlain Memorial
Memorial of 1880 honouring Joseph Chamberlain, the businessman, mayor and statesman, unveiled with Chamberlain present.
Church
St Martin in the Bull Ring
The original parish church of Birmingham, between the Bullring shopping centre and the markets.
Sculpture
The Guardian (Bullring bull)
Bull sculpture at the Bullring shopping centre, also known as The Guardian.
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Landmark building
Selfridges Building
Department store building by Future Systems, completed in 2003 as part of the Bullring shopping centre.
Listed building
The Rotunda
Cylindrical 81-metre tower completed in 1965 as offices and converted to flats between 2004 and 2008; Grade II listed.
Historic houses
Birmingham Back to Backs
The city's last surviving court of back-to-back houses, shown by the National Trust; booking ahead is advised.
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Theatre
Birmingham Hippodrome
Theatre on Hurst Street in the Chinese Quarter.
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Cathedral
St Chad's Cathedral
Catholic cathedral and mother church of the Archdiocese of Birmingham, dedicated to Saint Chad of Mercia.
Shopping arcade
Great Western Arcade
Grade II listed Victorian covered arcade between Colmore Row and Temple Row.
Theatre
The Old Rep
Grade II listed theatre on Station Street, opened in 1913 as the first purpose-built repertory theatre in the UK.
Monument
Chinese Pagoda
Granite pagoda carved in Fujian, China, and given to the city by the Wing Yip brothers.
Shopping centre
Grand Central
Shopping centre above New Street station, reopened as Grand Central in 2015 after redevelopment.
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Jewellery Quarter
Workshops, small museums and a Georgian square in a working jewellery district
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Brindleyplace & the Canals
Gas Street Basin, Centenary Square and the concert halls and canalside squares of Westside
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Digbeth & Eastside
Former factories turned studios, music venues and street food, beside the new Eastside park
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- City Centre & Bullring (area photo): Mutney, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- St Philip's Cathedral: St_Philip's_Birmingham.JPG: Sunil060902 derivative work: JimmyGuano (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery: Geni, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Council House: Tanya Dedyukhina, CC BY 3.0, source
- Birmingham Town Hall: Very Quiet, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- The River: Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, source
- Chamberlain Memorial: The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- St Martin in the Bull Ring: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- The Guardian (Bullring bull): w:en:User:Zukeylukey (Taken by Luke Byfield), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Selfridges Building: Spinnykid, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- The Rotunda: Erebus555, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Birmingham Back to Backs: User Oosoom on en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Birmingham Hippodrome: Oosoom at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- St Chad's Cathedral: G-Man at English Wikipedia, Public domain, source
- Great Western Arcade: Oosoom at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- The Old Rep: Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK, CC BY 2.0, source
- Chinese Pagoda: Peter_Glyn, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Grand Central: Bs0u10e01, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Jewellery Quarter: Brian Clift, CC BY 2.0, source
- Brindleyplace & the Canals: Oosoom at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Digbeth & Eastside: Brianboru100, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, used under the licences shown. All photo credits
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