Description

The following building shall be added to the list;

BIRMINGHAM OXFORD ROAD
SP 08 SE
Moseley
12/10043
Baptist Church
II
Baptist Church. 1888, with minor C20 alterations. By
J.P.Osborne,architect of Birmingham. Rock-faced pink sandstone
laid to regular courses,with ashlar limestone dressings and
plain tile roof coverings,with ashlar kneelers and coped
gables. Irregular plan, with corner to north-west, west end
entry vestibule within lean-to porch of full width,north and
south transepts,apsidal chancel with vestry to north,and
attached meeting room and office range linked by arched
doorway at north-east corner.Decorated style detailing. North
elevation has 3-stage tower to west end with tall coupled
lancets to bell stage.4-stage octagonal limestone spire with 3
tiers of lucarnes below a crocketed pinnacle. Clerestoried
nave of 4 bays with 3-light windows to aisles and triple
lancets to the clerestorey.Transept gable has wide 5-light
window with geometric tracery.Low single bay vestry links with
canted end of meeting room, each of the 3 facets with coupled
lancets below a gablet. Chancel apse with slender 2 light
windows with quatrefoils to arched heads. Nave west gable
with wide 5-light window above lean-to porch with gabled
entry. Interior; full-width glazed entry screen gives access
to wide nave with arcades of moulded pointed arches rising
from slender columns with simple foliated capitals.
Arch-braced roof trusses rise from arcade corbels.Chancel with
polychrome encaustic tiled floor,marble immersion
font,pulpit,and altar with reredos. Stained glass by
Heaton,Butler and Bayne of London, and A J.Davis of the
Bromsgrove Guild (1932).

Listing NGR: SP0771086572

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26527835

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings