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School of Art Gallery & Museum

Situated a few minutes walk from the railway station, the University Department of Art and Art History.

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University of Wales Aberystwyth

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Extract from "Coflein"
Built in 1907 by Alfred Cross of London and commissioned by David Davies of Llandinam and by Misses Davies of Gregynog in memory of their father. It was among the earliest purpose built chemical laboratories and the first in Wales.
A renaissance style building: 2-storey with basement to the North West end. A 15-window snecked rubble front with overall parapet, cornice and bolection moulded eaves band. A slate roof with central cupola and glazed lanterns. 1st floor oval windows with architraves and leaded glass. 12 pane sash windows with raised cornices and architraves, to the ground floor. An advanced frontispiece to the centre with rusticated quoins and semi-circular pediment with shield. The side elevations have similar details.
The interior has; groin vaulted passages, 5-bay tunnel roofed laboratories and an acoustically designed large lecture theatre. It also retains a perron staircase with barley twist balusters, oval balustraded well to 1st floor landing with top lantern.

Extract from "Gathering the Jewels"
The collections of the School of Art at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, consist mainly of fine and decorative arts but also include glassware, baskets from Europe, North America, and Africa, Welsh furniture, weaponry and musical instruments from Africa, Polynesia, New Guinea and Australia. At present there are some 9,000 items of graphic art (prints, photographs, watercolours and drawings), just under 150 oil and acrylic paintings, a small collection of European, Indian and Far Eastern bronzes and approximately 1,300 items of ceramics; studio ceramics, slipware, factory made pots and older ceramics from Africa, South America, Japan and China.

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Further Links of Interest:
Gathering the Jewels
A selection of items from the collections of the School of Art, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Coflein - Discovering Our Past Online
Coflein is the free online database for the National Monuments Record of Wales (NMRW).

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