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This empty office unit is at the corner of Mackadown Lane and Meadway. It would be good to see it put to some good use.

This new bingo hall is located pretty much at the junction of Meadway with St Giles Road.

This view of the 1967 Catholic church by Richard Gilbert Scott shows the sanctuary with sacristy behind, underneath the high timber-framed crossing that is supported by curving vaults of reinforced concrete. The clerestory glass is by John Chrestien.

Seen across a car park from Mackadown Lane. Built 1966-67 and Grade 2 listed.

Admirers of Modernist architecture have come to see Our Lady Help of Christians, a Catholic church in Kitts Green, Birmingham, that was completed in 1967 to designs by Richard Gilbert Scott, of the famous Scott dynasty of architects. The tour was led by members of Brutiful Birmingham, which defends and promotes the city's much-maligned Modernist and Brutalist architecture. On Brutiful Birmingham see Joe Holyoak at Building Design https://www.bdonline.co.uk/briefing/review-birmingham-the-brutiful-years/5119945.article .

So many of Birmingham's suburbs benefit from tree-lined roads like this.

Church building of the Catholic parish of Kitts Green/Tile Cross, located on East Meadway, opposite the shopping precinct and now next to Lidl. It was built in 1966-7 https://taking-stock.org.uk/building/kitts-green-our-lady-help-of-christians/ to a design by Richard Gilbert Scott of the famous Scott dynasty of architects. Its roof, with its dramatic curving sweeps of ribbed, serrated trusses made from reinforced concrete faced with copper, is a local landmark. R G Scott also designed the nearby Catholic church in Sheldon, but he considered this design to be the better of the two https://gilbertscott.org/our-lady-help-of-christians-church/ .

This is a view from the south transept across the sanctuary towards the north transept, with the nave off to the left - if such traditional terms make any sense here. The three arms of this T-shaped church have equal status really, and were intended by the architect, Richard Gilbert Scott, to bring all worshippers close to the altar. The church was completed in 1967 and embodies the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council, which had ended two years previously. The three concave vaults of reinforced concrete resemble the sides of a tent, suggesting perhaps the People of God on the move, on pilgrimage in a time of great change within the Catholic Church and without. See the listing at the Historic England site https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1245546 .

This is a Catholic church built in 1966-7 to designs by Richard Gilbert Scott of Giles Scott, Son and Partners. The building is T-shaped in plan; each arm of the T is roofed with an upward-sweeping curve of reinforced concrete with serrated ribbed trusses. The roof is of felt coated with copper. A pair of side chapels nestle in the corners of the T, each with a bell-shaped roof; the Lady Chapel can be seen here. The church is Grade II* listed: see the listing at Historic England https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1245546?section=official-list-entry and the entry at the Gilbert Scott Dynasty site https://gilbertscott.org/our-lady-help-of-christians-church/ .

A Roman Catholic church, located on East Meadway in Shard End. The church was built to the design of Richard Gilbert Scott (of the architects Sir Giles Scott, Son & Partner) in the late 1960s, and attracted a Grade II* listing https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101245546-roman-catholic-church-of-our-lady-help-of-christians-including-sign-and-boundary-wall-shard-end-ward#.WyiivadKiUk & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1245546 in 1999. It is particularly noteworthy for its innovative architectural design, as well as the coloured glass windows and quality of the internal fixtures and fittings.