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William Bloye
William Bloye
Born	1890; Cornwall
Died	6 June 1975; Arezzo, Italy
Field	Sculpture
Influenced by	Eric Gill
Awards	FRBS

William James Bloye (1890–6 June 1975) was an English sculptor, active in Birmingham either side of World War II.

He studied, and later, taught at the Birmingham School of Art, where his pupils included Gordon Herickx, Raymond Mason and Ian Walters. He also studied stone-carving and letter cutting under Eric Gill around 1921.

In 1925 he became a member of the Birmingham Civic Society, having, at about that time, a studio on Golden Hillock Road, Small Heath, Birmingham. As Birmingham's unofficial civic sculptor he worked on virtually all public commissions including libraries, hospitals and the University. He often carved bas-relief plaques, typically for public houses in Birmingham.

He became a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists in 1930 (the two 1919 bronze plaques on the RBSA are the earliest known work by Bloye in Birmingham), and the Royal British Society of Sculptors: ARBS in 1934, and FRBS in 1938. He also won the latter's Otto Beit Medal. Retiring from the School of Art in 1956 he moved to Solihull. He died in Arezzo, Italy in 1975.

[edit] Works

Work	Location (Birmingham unless stated)	Date	Coordinates (With links to map and aerial photo sources)	Notes
Bronze Plaques	Royal Birmingham Society of Artists	1919 (1919)	52°29′06″N 1°54′27″W / 52.484891°N 1.907520°W / 52.484891; -1.907520 (RBSA)	Formerly at the Society's old headquarters on New Street^[1]
Allegories of Art and Industry	over the north-west door of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (The Feeney Gallery extension), Great Charles Street	c 1919 (1919)	52°28′52″N 1°54′18″W / 52.4811°N 1.9050°W / 52.4811; -1.9050 (BM&AG)	Sculpture^[1]
Call; Front Line and Return	Hall of Memory, Broad Street	1925 (1925)	52°28′46.02″N 1°54′25.31″W / 52.47945°N 1.9070306°W / 52.47945; -1.9070306 (Hall of Memory)	Interior bas-relief carvings^[1]
Coat of arms and lions	Town Hall, St James Road, Dudley	1928 (1928)	52°30′42″N 2°05′10″W / 52.5117°N 2.0861°W / 52.5117; -2.0861 (Coat of arms and lions, Dudley)	façade on Town Hall^[2]
Fox and Hollybush	Acocks Green	1927 (1927)-8	52°26′39″N 1°50′03″W / 52.44408°N 1.83418°W / 52.44408; -1.83418 (Fox and Hollybush)	Bas-relief from former Fox Hollies pub.^[1] Now on Lidl supermarket
War Memorial and St George and the Dragon	Town Hall, St James Road, Dudley	1928 (1928)	52°30′42″N 2°05′10″W / 52.5117°N 2.0860°W / 52.5117; -2.0860 (Coat of arms and lions, Dudley)	also four bronze lions (1936) on flagpoles, Town Hall tower^[2]
Running stag	Perry Barr Stadium	1929 (1929)	52°31′09″N 1°53′52″W / 52.519192°N 1.897717°W / 52.519192; -1.897717 (Running Stag)	Stone bas-relief; attributed^[1]
The Antelope	Sparkhill	c. 1929 (1929)	52°27′12″N 1°51′57″W / 52.453362°N 1.865753°W / 52.453362; -1.865753 (Antelope)	Bas-relief pub sign. Designed by Bloye, sculpted by his assistant, Tom Wright^[1]
Allegory of Painting	Art Gallery, Avenue Road, Leamington Spa	1929 (1929)		Life-size female nude in sandstone^[3]
Aesculapius	Chest Clinic, Great Charles Street	1930 (1930)	52°28′54″N 1°54′17″W / 52.4817°N 1.9047°W / 52.4817; -1.9047 (Aesculapius)	^[1]
Capitols and Heads	Council House, Priory Road, Dudley	1935 (1935)	52°30′44″N 2°05′03″W / 52.5122°N 2.0842°W / 52.5122; -2.0842 (Capitols and Heads, Dudley)	^[2]
From the Wren's Nest	Council House, Priory Road, Dudley	1935 (1935)	52°30′44″N 2°05′04″W / 52.5121°N 2.0844°W / 52.5121; -2.0844 (From the Wren's Nest, Dudley)	entrance to council chamber^[2]
The Towers	Tower Hill, Great Barr	1936 (1936)	52°32′08″N 1°55′14″W / 52.535574°N 1.92062°W / 52.535574; -1.92062 (The Towers)	Bloye was responsible for all the stone carving on this brick building^[1]
Royal Oak	Lozells	c. 1936 (1936)	52°30′10″N 1°54′02″W / 52.502687°N 1.900501°W / 52.502687; -1.900501 (Royal Oak)	Decoration around the doorway of a former pub (now a shop). Formerly brightly painted^[1]
St. Nicholas Rescuing the Three Children	Was at John Shelton School, Coventry	1936 (1936)		Lost after the school was demolished in 1999^[3]
Bear and Staff	The Bear Inn, Stratford Road, Sparkhill	c. 1937 (1937)	52°26′54″N 1°51′40″W / 52.448235°N 1.861201°W / 52.448235; -1.861201 (Bear and Staff)	Bas-relief pub sign^[1]
Boar's Head	Perry Barr	c. 1938 (1938)	52°31′45″N 1°53′44″W / 52.529153°N 1.895465°W / 52.529153; -1.895465 (Boar's Head)	Painted wood pub sign comprising a model boar's head, on a pole^[1]. Taken from the arms of the Gough-Calthorpe family of nearby Perry Hall.
Doorway	Yardley Library, Yardley	1938 (1938)	52°27′40″N 1°48′58″W / 52.461°N 1.816°W / 52.461; -1.816 (Yardley library)
Apollo fountain	Coronation Gardens, Ednam Road, Dudley	1939 (1939)	52°30′46″N 2°05′00″W / 52.51277°N 2.08337°W / 52.51277; -2.08337 (Apollo fountain, Dudley)	sculpture on top of fountain^[2]
Queen Victoria	Victoria Square	1951 (1951)	52°28′47″N 1°54′11″W / 52.479628°N 1.902998°W / 52.479628; -1.902998 (Queen Victoria)	Bronze statue, recast from a marble statue by Thomas Brock^[1]/
Josiah Mason	Now at the junction of Chester Road & Orphanage Road in Erdington	1952 (1952)	52°31′54″N 1°49′30″W / 52.531556°N 1.825128°W / 52.531556; -1.825128 (Josiah Mason)	Bronze bust, recast from a marble statue by Francis G. Williamson of 1885, which stood opposite Mason Science College in Edmund Street^[1]
Bas-relief	Mechanical Engineering Building at the University of Birmingham	1954 (1954)	52°26′57″N 1°56′06″W / 52.44928°N 1.93509°W / 52.44928; -1.93509	^[1]
Boulton, Watt and Murdoch	Broad Street	1956 (1956)	52°28′43″N 1°54′30″W / 52.4786°N 1.9084°W / 52.4786; -1.9084 (Boulton, Watt and Murdoch)	^[1]
John Skirrow Wright	Birmingham Council House	1956 (1956)	52°28′48″N 1°54′10″W / 52.480082°N 1.902760°W / 52.480082; -1.902760 (John Skirrow Wright)	Bust^[1]
St. Alphege	St. Alphege CofE school, New Road, Solihull	1959 (1959)		Restored in 1994^[3]
Mermaid fountain	University of Birmingham Guild of Students	1960 (1960)	52°26′57″N 1°55′38″W / 52.44927°N 1.927225°W / 52.44927; -1.927225 (Mermaid fountain)	Bronze^[1]
Mermaid	University of Birmingham Guild of Students	1960 (1960)	52°26′58″N 1°55′39″W / 52.44951°N 1.92741°W / 52.44951; -1.92741	Clipsham stone sculpture, on wall^[1]
Decoration	The Mermaid (public house), Sparkhill	c. 1960 (1960)	52°27′25″N 1°52′08″W / 52.456861°N 1.868761°W / 52.456861; -1.868761 (The Mermaid, Sparkhill)	(Bas-relief pub sign attributed to Alan Bridgewater^[1])
Coat of Arms	Dental Hospital	c. 1973 (1973)	52°29′09″N 1°53′42″W / 52.485875°N 1.895101°W / 52.485875; -1.895101 (Dental Hospital)	Fibreglass^[1]

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t Noszlopy, George T. (1998). Public Sculpture of Birmingham including Sutton Coldfield. Public Scupture of Britain. 2. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 0853236828.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Noszlopy, George T. (2005). Public Sculpture of Staffordshire and the Black Country. Public Scupture of Britain. 9. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-0853239994. http://books.google.com/books?id=RbfVkHMTC0cC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false.
^ ^a ^b ^c Noszlopy, George T. (2003). Public Sculpture of Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull. Public Scupture of Britain. 6. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 0853238472.

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