Site:

Church of St Philip, Church Road, Webheath

Grid Reference:    

SP 0151 6675

Description:

Parish church. 1869-70 by F.Preedy for Baroness Windsor. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings. Machine-tiled roof with some crested ridge tiles and gable end parapets with finials. 4-bay nave with bell-turret and gabled south porch; 2-bay chancel with north vestry. Buttresses with offsets and chamfered plinth. Geometrical tracery. Nave has two-light windows, that at the west end having flanking single-light windows and a quatrefoil in the gable apex. Porch has cinquefoil side windows and pointed archway of two orders and nookshafts with foliated capitals. Chancel has a 3-light east window and a quatrefoil window in the gable apex; three-light and single-light windows in the side elevations. Interior is ashlar-faced and has arch-braced roofs. Foliated corbels in chancel. Original fittings include an octagonal font with green marble shafts and a reredos by Burke & Co in alabaster and marble with mosaic insets. One stained-glass window by Capronnier of Brussels of 1871.

Sandstone walling surrounds the churchyard on three sides with a chamfered coping and partly with a metal railing. Also chamfered stone gate piers with quatrefoils in circles set in each face

Significance:

A good example of the work of this local church architect, compact and well-proportioned with some memorable interior fittings. It is the most distinctive historic building that survives in the immediate locality and its semi-rural setting is particularly pleasing, surrounded by its small churchyard and several mature trees.

History:

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