Baptist Church

Baptist Church. Built in 1888, with minor alterations in the 20th century. Designed by J.P. Osborne, an architect of Birmingham. The church is constructed of rock-faced pink sandstone with ashlar limestone dressings and a plain tile roof, incorporating ashlar kneelers and coped gables. The building has an irregular plan, with a corner facing northwest. It includes a west-end entry vestibule within a full-width lean-to porch, north and south transepts, an apsidal chancel with a vestry to the north, and an attached meeting room and office range linked by an arched doorway at the northeast corner. The design features Decorated style detailing.

The north elevation features a three-stage tower to the west end, with tall coupled lancet windows to the bell stage. An octagonal limestone spire rises above, featuring three tiers of lucarnes below a crocketed pinnacle. The clerestoried nave has four bays, with three-light windows to the aisles and triple lancets to the clerestory. The transept gable contains a wide five-light window with geometric tracery. A low, single-bay vestry connects to the canted end of the meeting room; each facet of the canted end has coupled lancets and a gablet. The chancel apse has slender two-light windows with quatrefoils to arched heads. The west gable of the nave has a wide five-light window above the lean-to porch with a gabled entry.

Inside, a full-width glazed entry screen provides access to a wide nave with arcades of moulded pointed arches rising from slender columns with simple foliated capitals. Arch-braced roof trusses rise from arcade corbels. The chancel features a polychrome encaustic tiled floor, a marble immersion font, a pulpit, and an altar with a reredos. Stained glass windows are by Heaton, Butler and Bayne of London, and A.J. Davis of the Bromsgrove Guild (1932).