Edward Road Baptist Church

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