Edward Road Baptist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Birmingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 July 1982. Church.
Edward Road Baptist Church
- WRENN ID
- pale-cellar-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Ladywood MP: Shabana Mahmood (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 July 1982
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Edward Road Baptist Church, Edward Road B5
- OS grid reference
- SP 070 844
- Coordinates
- 52.4582, -1.8974
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Edward Road Baptist Church, built in 1899, is a striking example of the Birmingham terracotta school. The church features a nave with a clerestory and low aisles, along with transepts and a Sunday School attached to the rear. Constructed from hard red brick, it is adorned with lavish buff terracotta ornamentation and dressings, showcasing a style that blends Romanesque and Perpendicular architectural elements.
The north entrance front is marked by a broad shaped gable, flanked by turret-like buttresses capped with terracotta finialed openwork cupolas. Above the porch, there are two large, richly decorated Romanesque windows featuring quatrefoil tracery. A well-modeled angel in high relief embraces the central spandrel, while the gable above displays terracotta banding and a narrow central arch motif with cresting at the apex.
The projecting porch boasts a terracotta Romanesque portal, flanked by Perpendicular cupola-capped buttresses. These buttresses rise to support a gable that is compartmented with quatrefoils and features a large ogee finialed pinnacle. The side elevations, including the gable-ended school, are similarly decorated with terracotta ornamentation, finials, and buttress-turrets.
Local climate
Edward Road Baptist Church receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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