Christ Church Baptist Church

VICTORIA ROAD 1. 5104 Aston B6 Christ Church Baptist Church SP 08 NE 7/85 II 2. 1864-65 by James Cranston of Oxford. An eccentric Venetian Gothic design in polychromatic brick with stone dressings; patterned slate roof. Important corner site at which stands the steeple. It is linked to the body of the church by a single lower bay which has in it an entrance with a row of 5 lights above it. In the angle between this bay and the body of the church a canted sided bay with another narrower entrance. The steeple with large 2 light bell openings and the octagonal stone spire rising between tabernacles on the corners. The body of the church divided into 7 bays. Six have coupled lancet type windows below and, above, large single light windows with octofoils separated one from another by buttresses. The seventh bay projects as a transept. To the right, staggered gabled bays, one of them the hall of 1888, an addition by J C Dunn and J F Hopkiss. Lofty interior with clerestory lighting - a large hall with cast iron shafts rising to roof and supporting galleries. The east end has a shallow apse with glazed semi-dome, the desk and choir stalls with organ are raised on podium over the immersion font.

Listing NGR: SP0704089429