Christ Church Baptist Church
CHRIST CHURCH BAPTIST CHURCH, VICTORIA ROAD B6
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210329
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church Baptist Church
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH BAPTIST CHURCH, VICTORIA ROAD B6
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210329
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Christ Church Baptist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRIST CHURCH BAPTIST CHURCH, VICTORIA ROAD B6
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHRIST CHURCH BAPTIST CHURCH, VICTORIA ROAD B6
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 07040 89429
Details
VICTORIA ROAD 1. 5104 Aston B6 Christ Church Baptist Church SP 08 NE 7/85 II 2. 1864-65 by James Cranston of Oxford. An eccentric Venetian Gothic design in polychromatic brick with stone dressings; patterned slate roof. Important corner site at which stands the steeple. It is linked to the body of the church by a single lower bay which has in it an entrance with a row of 5 lights above it. In the angle between this bay and the body of the church a canted sided bay with another narrower entrance. The steeple with large 2 light bell openings and the octagonal stone spire rising between tabernacles on the corners. The body of the church divided into 7 bays. Six have coupled lancet type windows below and, above, large single light windows with octofoils separated one from another by buttresses. The seventh bay projects as a transept. To the right, staggered gabled bays, one of them the hall of 1888, an addition by J C Dunn and J F Hopkiss. Lofty interior with clerestory lighting - a large hall with cast iron shafts rising to roof and supporting galleries. The east end has a shallow apse with glazed semi-dome, the desk and choir stalls with organ are raised on podium over the immersion font.
Listing NGR: SP0704089429
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 217693
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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