Greek Orthodox Cathedral
GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL, ARTHUR PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1235501
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Greek Orthodox Cathedral
- Statutory Address:
- GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL, ARTHUR PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1235501
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Greek Orthodox Cathedral
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL, ARTHUR PLACE
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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:
- GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL, ARTHUR PLACE
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 05922 87205
Details
SP 0587 SE BIRMINGHAM ARTHUR PLACE
27/10141 Greek Orthodox Cathedral
II
Catholic Apostolic church, now Greek Orthodox Cathedral. 1873, by Julius Alfred Chatwin; additions of1898 and 1900. English bond brown bricks with blue brick bands and diapering and terracotta dressings. Steeply-pitched plain tile roof with moulded terracotta coping to gable-ends with corbelled kneelers and apex crosses. PLAN: 8-bay nave with low aisles; apsidal chancel; apsidal baptistry at west end; south chapel; circular chapter house, cloister and porch on north west corner; vestry on north side. The vestry, chapter house and cloister were added circa 1900. High Victorian Gothic style with Geometric tracery.
EXTERIOR: The lofty 8-bay nave has tall clerestory windows with terracotta Geometric tracery 2-light windows, between which there are large brick buttresses with set-offs, rising from low aisles. The chancel has a polygonal apse and big lancets. The west end has polygonal baptistry with large buttresses at the angles and tall2-light windows between with Geometric tracery and hipped roof with wrought-iron apex cross and above in gable of nave a pointed arch window with Geometric tracery; to left, circular chapter house with moulded brick pointed windows and conical roof with wrought-iron cross at apex; gabled porch on left with moulded pointed arch. On south side apsidal deaconesses room with semi-conical roof with wrought-iron cross. INTERIOR: The brick walls have been painted white. Lofty interior with timber roof with arched braces on small hammerbeams with braces on clustered shafts between tall clerestory windows. Low 8-bay arcades with pointed moulded brick arches on squat cylindrical piers with scalloped capitals. Tall chancel arch and baptistry arch at west end with moulded arches on clustered shafts set on corbels. The chancel walls are similarly treated with shafts between the windows supporting the braces of the chancel roofs hammerbeams. Stone reredos with spires and pinnacles. Later screen. Arcaded stone pulpit and font. Organ chamber with ornate timber gallery. Victorian pews. Stained glass to chancel apse windows. SOURCE: Buildings of England, p.139.
Listing NGR: SP0592687205
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 426244
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgewood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1981)
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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