CHURCH OF ST AGATHA

CHURCH OF ST AGATHA, STRATFORD ROAD B11

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1210221
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST AGATHA
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST AGATHA, STRATFORD ROAD B11

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1210221
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1970
Date of most recent amendment:: 08-Jul-1982
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST AGATHA
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST AGATHA, STRATFORD ROAD B11

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST AGATHA, STRATFORD ROAD B11

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Birmingham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 08667 84778

Details

STRATFORD ROAD 1. 5104 Highgate B11 Church of St Agatha (formerly listed under Sparkbrook) SF 08 SE 12/59 21.1.70 I 2. 1899-1901 exaeptionally fine and original church by W E Bidlake dominated by its great tower, in a Perpendicular style freely reinterpreted in an Arts and Crafts idiom and of very fine workmanship. Fine quality red brick with stone dressings. Aisles and clerestory. The west front with vestibule porches to aisles flanking the magnificent lofty tower containing the low baptistry apse at its foot. The tower has slender octagonal corner turrets with their upper stages composed of red and white chequerwork surmounted by open work turret/pinnacles crowned by lofty original wrought iron finials. The stair turret on the south face also has an imaginatively designed top stage and in carefully proportioned to emphasise the soaring scale of the tower and the powerful belfry openings. Above the baptistry is a fine sculptured sweeping frame work to the west tower window and equally inventive sculptural and carved decoration enlivens the cambered stone arches and jambs of the flanking vestibule doorways. The Gothic of the fenestration to the aisles and clerestory is more conventional. The interior, restored after the the war and thefire of 1957, is a remarkably sophisticated original conception, faced in pale buff brick blending with the stone dressings. The arcade hood moulds have Bidlake's typical finesse of detailing, almost dying into the piers but with a scrolled curve carved over the vestigial ribs of the pier, the latter is then carved up to divide the large clerestory windows and terminating in richly and freely carved foliage corbels; the timber ribs of the roof carrying on the lines of the masonry. The chancel's pointed barrel vault is born by stone arches springing from very richly carved corbels. The sophistication of the carving and quality of the moulded detailing is consistent throughout. Bidlake's furnishings were destroyed in the 1957 fire.

Listing NGR: SP0866884777

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Legacy System number:: 217658
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.