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BIRMINGHAM OXFORD ROAD SP 08 SE Moseley 12/10043 Baptist Church II Baptist Church. 1888, with minor C20 alterations. By J.P.Osborne,architect of Birmingham. Rock-faced pink sandstone laid to regular courses,with ashlar limestone dressings and plain tile roof coverings,with ashlar kneelers and coped gables. Irregular plan, with corner to north-west, west end entry vestibule within lean-to porch of full width,north and south transepts,apsidal chancel with vestry to north,and attached meeting room and office range linked by arched doorway at north-east corner.Decorated style detailing. North elevation has 3-stage tower to west end with tall coupled lancets to bell stage.4-stage octagonal limestone spire with 3 tiers of lucarnes below a crocketed pinnacle. Clerestoried nave of 4 bays with 3-light windows to aisles and triple lancets to the clerestorey.Transept gable has wide 5-light window with geometric tracery.Low single bay vestry links with canted end of meeting room, each of the 3 facets with coupled lancets below a gablet. Chancel apse with slender 2 light windows with quatrefoils to arched heads. Nave west gable with wide 5-light window above lean-to porch with gabled entry. Interior; full-width glazed entry screen gives access to wide nave with arcades of moulded pointed arches rising from slender columns with simple foliated capitals. Arch-braced roof trusses rise from arcade corbels.Chancel with polychrome encaustic tiled floor,marble immersion font,pulpit,and altar with reredos. Stained glass by Heaton,Butler and Bayne of London, and A J.Davis of the Bromsgrove Guild (1932).

Listing NGR: SP0771086572

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