page_title: Western Bank Campus
section_title: Firth Court and Alfred Denny Building
hierarchical_section_title: Western Bank Campus / Buildings / Firth Court and Alfred Denny Building
caption_attribution_description: Edgar Allen Building, Firth Hall, Rotunda And Quadrangle
context_page_description: The Western Bank Campus is the main campus of the University of Sheffield. It lies one mile to the west of Sheffield city centre and is bounded by Upper Hanover Street to the east, Glossop Road to the south, Clarkson Street to the west, and Bolsover Street to the north. The campus includes Firth Court, Alfred Denny Building, Western Bank library and Arts Tower, Geography and Planning building, Bartolomé House, Dainton and Richard Roberts Buildings, the Sheffield Students' Union building, the Octagon Centre, Graves Building, Hicks Building, the Information Commons, the Soundhouse and the Jessop West building. The nearest motorway is the A57.
context_section_description: Firth Court is the main administrative centre for the University of Sheffield, stands at the heart of the university precinct on Western Bank. It originally housed the Arts, Science and Medicine departments, while it is currently home to the Department for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology and Biomedical Science.
  The Grade II listed building, named after Mark Firth, was designed by Edward Mitchel Gibbs and built in 1903 to 1905. 
  Firth Court is a red brick Edwardian building with ashlar dressings and slate roofs in Perpendicular Revival style. The building was opened by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in 1905. 
  Located to the left of Firth Court, the Rotunda is the Registrar and Secretary's Office. Formerly the Edgar Allen Library, it is an neo-Gothic style octagonal chapter house opened 26 April 1909 by Prince and Princess of Wales, which has a circular arcade with compound piers and transoms containing portraits of university benefactors. It is linked to the main block via a glazed corridor. The Firth Court quadrangle, comprising Firth Hall Block, North Block, West Block, and Florey and Addison buildings, was completed in 1914 also by Gibbs. Gibbs planned to build a double quadrangle but was never happened. During the Second World War, the quadrangle was converted into an air raid shelter.
  Alfred Denny Building, a red brick building named after the first Professor of Zoology at the department, is connected to Firth Court via the Addison Building. The building houses the Biomedical Science, Animal and Plant Science Departments including its associated museum, Disability and Dyslexia Support Service, and the Perak Laboratories.
caption: The Firth Court quadrangle with the Rotunda on the right
exif: {"Image Tag 0x000B": "Windows Photo Editor 10.0.10011.16384", "Image ImageDescription": "", "Image Make": "SONY", "Image Model": "DSC-HX9V", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Windows Photo Editor 10.0.10011.16384", "Image DateTime": "2018:07:27 20:05:47", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image ExifOffset": "2428", "GPS GPSVersionID": "[2, 3, 0, 0]", "GPS GPSStatus": "V", "GPS GPSImgDirectionRef": "M", "GPS GPSImgDirection": "679/4", "GPS GPSMapDatum": "WGS-84", "GPS GPSDifferential": "0", "Image GPSInfo": "17504", "Image PrintIM": "[80, 114, 105, 110, 116, 73, 77, 0, 48, 51, 48, 48, 0, 0, 2, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0]", "Image Padding": "[]", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "96", "Thumbnail YResolution": "96", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "17722", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "16733", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/250", "EXIF FNumber": "33/10", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Program Normal", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "100", "EXIF SensitivityType": "Recommended Exposure Index", "EXIF RecommendedExposureIndex": "100", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0230", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2018:06:07 15:56:29", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2018:06:07 15:56:29", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF CompressedBitsPerPixel": "3", "EXIF BrightnessValue": "8497/1280", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "55/16", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF LightSource": "Unknown", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "107/25", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "4608", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "3456", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "17442", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "1", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF Contrast": "Normal", "EXIF Saturation": "Normal", "EXIF Sharpness": "Normal", "EXIF LensSpecification": "[107/25, 1712/25, 33/10, 59/10]", "EXIF Padding": "[]", "EXIF OffsetSchema": "4228"}