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Rectory Park Road, BIRMINGHAM, B26 3LJ

Barely visible behind the gas pipe, there is in fact a rather unloved OS cutmark which was originally levelled at 103.44m above Ordnance Datum Newlyn.

Linking Cranes Park Road and Mardon Road, both named after the suburb's 1930s developers.

There has been a GP's surgery here since for at least 60 years, gradually extending backwards.

In front of a mix of unaltered, extended and terraced semis.

This is a view looking away from the sanctuary towards the rear wall of the nave, showing the rise in the floor away from the sanctuary, the light streaming through the clear glass of the roof lights, and Chrestien's stained glass, include one of two windows illustrating More's heraldic moorcock and a key, depicted close up at Image

This view of part of the exterior of this late 1960s Catholic church by Richard Gilbert Scott shows one of a pair of chunky concrete waterspouts, also the sturdy reinforced concrete frame with corner buttresses and the windows of stained glass between concrete fins; see the listing for the church at the Historic England site https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1410131?section=official-list-entry . Perhaps the temples of Utopia had waterspouts like this; see More on the religions of the Utopians https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/more/works/utopia/ch10.html .

The architect, Richard Gilbert Scott, designed for a porch a freestanding canopy of reinforced concrete resting on a pair of piers. It does look a little like a chunkier version of a petrol station forecourt canopy, appropriate perhaps for Birmingham the Motor City. The original lettering of the church sign over the doors has survived. See the listing at Historic England https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1410131?section=official-list- . The visit to this church formed the second part of Brutiful Birmingham's guided tour of two Richard Gilbert Scott churches in eastern Birmingham; for the first part, see Image On Brutalism as an architectural style and ethic, see the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) site https://www.architecture.com/explore-architecture/brutalism .

This window by John Chrestien depicts the three persons of the Christian Godhead - Father, Son & Holy Spirit - as three interlinked circles. The church was completed in 1969.

Linking Cranes Park Road and Mardon Road, named for the suburb's 1930s builders, Mardon and Kraintz.