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Rotton Park Road, BIRMINGHAM, B16 9JJ

This residential block seems to have either retained its original windows or have replica replacements. I think it looks all the better for it.

Rotton Park Road possesses some fine houses, such as these, numbers 17 and 19. These are grade II* listed, built 1896 by J L Ball, one of them for himself.

A pair of semis, designed and built around 1896 by the architect J. L. Ball, who occupied one of the himself. They were collectively Grade II* listed https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101076203-17-and-19-rotton-park-road-b16-edgbaston-ward#.XhbdS8j7RPY & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1076203 in 1982.

At the time of photography, this large hotel appeared to be empty with not one car in the car park. But it has plenty of very recent (albeit average) reviews, as well as a website taking bookings, so must be trading.

Leading north off Hagley Road, St Augustine's Road is dominated by the spire of St Augustine's church which dates from 1868. The streets around here are quiet and leafy but there is an air of faded elegance about them.

Located just to the SW of the rather splendid Image, and was erected in the 1920s, initially as a memorial to the local men who gave their lives in WW1. It was altered and further names added after WW2, and then attracted a Grade II listing https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101430856-edgbaston-war-memorial-at-st-augustines-church-edgbaston-ward#.XhbYNMj7RPY & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1430856 in 2015.

At the time of photography, this large hotel appeared to be empty with not one car in the car park. But it has plenty of very recent (albeit average) reviews, as well as a website taking bookings, so must be trading.

The main part of the church was built in the 1860s to a design by J. A. Chatwin, with the tower and spire seen here being added in 1876. The land on which it stands originally belonged to the industrialist Joseph Gillott (a pen manufacturer) who, realising that existing places of worship were no longer sufficient for the growing population of this part of the city, took it upon himself to provide a new church. He gave the land to the church authorities, and investigated designs and siting with the architect Chatwin, who subsequently won a competition to design and build the church. It was dedicated to St Augustine of Hippo, and originally had a stained glass window in the south transept; this was destroyed by a bomb in the 2nd World War, and accidentally replaced by one showing St Augustine of Canterbury. Whoops. The whole structure was Grade II* listed https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101076255-parish-church-of-st-augustine-of-hippo-edgbaston-ward#.XhbZZ8j7RPY & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1076255 in 1970.