Edward Road Baptist Church
EDWARD ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH, EDWARD ROAD B5
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1343405
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Edward Road Baptist Church
- Statutory Address:
- EDWARD ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH, EDWARD ROAD B5
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1343405
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Edward Road Baptist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- EDWARD ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH, EDWARD ROAD B5
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:
- EDWARD ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH, EDWARD ROAD B5
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 07068 84476
Details
EDWARD ROAD 1. 5104 Balsall Heath B5 Balsall Heath B5 Edward Road Baptist Church SP 08 SE 12/77 II 2. 1899, a full blooded example of the Birmingham terracotta school. Nave with clerestory and low aisles, transepts and Sunday School attached to rear. All built of hard red brick with lavish buff terracotta ornament and dressings in a style combining Romanesque with Perpendicular details. North entrance front has broad shaped gable with flanking turret/buttresses capped by terracotta finialed openwork cupolas. Above the porch are a pair of large richly decorated Romanesque windows but with quatrefoil tracery. Well modelled angel in high relief embracing central spandrel whilst the gable above has terracotta banding and a narrow central arch motife with cresting to apex of gable. The projecting porch has a terracotta Romanesque portal, flanked by Perpendicular cupola-capped buttresses which rise to contain quatrefoil compartmented gable bisected on the vertical, from the keystone of the arch through the apex, by a large ogee finialed pinnacle. The side elevations including the gable ended school have similar terracotta decoration, finials and buttress/turrets.
Listing NGR: SP0706884476
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 217042
- 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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