Church of St Gregory the Great
CHURCH OF ST GREGORY THE GREAT, COVENTRY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234443
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Gregory the Great
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GREGORY THE GREAT, COVENTRY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234443
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Gregory the Great
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GREGORY THE GREAT, COVENTRY ROAD
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:
- CHURCH OF ST GREGORY THE GREAT, COVENTRY ROAD
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 10506 85314
Details
The following building shall be added to the list;
BIRMINGHAM COVENTRY ROAD SP 18 NW (south side), Small Heath 8/10055 Church of St Gregory the Great II Anglican church. 1911-12, by J.L. Ball, built by the Barnsleys; completed 1926-28 in association with H.W. Hobbiss. Red brick, mainly in English garden wall bond, and with stone and tile dressings. Clay Roman tile roof with gabled ends and corbelled brick eaves. PLAN: Basilican plan of seven bays with an apse at the liturgical east [south] end and gallery at the west [north] end. The apse and the three eastern bays of the nave were built in 1911-12 and the west end was completed in 1926-28. Arts and Crafts Byzantine style. EXTERIOR: The aisles have blind arcading with tile and stone tympanii; the clerestorey has round-headed windows in stone frames. The semi-circular apse has flat pilaster buttresses, stone frieze with brick zigzag pattern and blind arcaded clerestorey with stone colonnettes and stone and tile chequer pattern. Similar stepped arcading in the east gable above and in the west gable end above a cicular window and Crucifix. Two small bellcotes over the east gable with Roman tile roofs. INTERIOR: 6-bay arcades with tall grey Cornish granite piers, the two at the east end of the south side with Composite capitals, the remainder unfinished cushion-shaped capitals; plastered round arcade arches and apse arch flanked by small niches. Timber gallery at west end with thin tapered posts with cushion capitals. Moulded plaster coffered ceiling. Painted decoration on aisle tie-beams. Painted rood. SOURCE: Foster, A. Birmingham Churches, M. Phil.thesis, University of Central England, Birmingham.
Listing NGR: SP1050685314
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 410345
- 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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