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Kimbolton Drive, BROMSGROVE, B60 1QF

Looking north east on Greenhill.

Picture taken at Station Road,St Catherine's Road, Greenhill & Linthurst Newtown crossroads.

Located in Blackwell, on the south side of the junction of Greenhill, Station Road and St Catherine's Road. Lickey and Blackwell parish. 4 arms and disc finial. See also http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4975760. Milestone Society National ID: WO_SO9972

I have added the following information provided to me by the Milestone Society "A NEW OLD SIGNPOST! The village of Blackwell in Worcestershire enjoys a very green aspect, the focal point being a cross roads adjacent to church and post office. For many years this agreeable scene has been blighted by a particularly vulgar clutch of reflective road signs, totally unnecessary for a quite rural setting. The Lickey and Blackwell Parish Council decided the eyesore had been there long enough and an initiative from them was responded to by Bromsgrove District Council with some aplomb. In an imaginative move headed by Patrick Lees, BDC's Project Engineer, a cast iron signpost to a Victorian design was commissioned with original 1870 moulds being used to cast the finger boards. The village name appears on the masthead, a circular black finial with the lettering picked out in gold. The work was undertaken by Gregory's of Cannock, 33-41 Park Street, Bridgetown, Cannock, Staffs, WS11 3BT. It is to be hoped that following BDC's lead the traditional cast iron signpost may see a welcome come-back in suitable locations in many other parts of the country. However, it must be stressed that Gregory's of Cannock will not entertain enquiries from individuals or societies; they will only deal with local authorities. Neville Billington" From the Milestone Society Newsletter, issue 4, January 2003, page 16 The fingerpost has Milestone Society ID WO_SO9972

Grade II listed church built in the 1930's.

An Anglican church built in the late 1930s by Herbert Luck North. The church is Grade II listed. Historic England description Anglican church. 1939-40; by Herbert Luck North. Whitewashed roughcast walls with exposed red brick plinth with course of blue bricks. Pantile gable-ended and hipped roofs. PLAN: Nave, chancel, north and south aisles, west narthex, tower over the sanctuary and a vestry on the north side. Scandinavian free Gothic style. EXTERIOR: The large pantile roof is carried down over aisles and is continued over the narthex at the west end, which has a rose window in the gable above. A tower with a saddle-back roof over the east end with groups of tall thin lancets with hooded triangular heads and similar louvres in the gables of the tower. Groups of similar lancets to the aisles, narthex and chancel, the east window comprises a group of very tall lancets with an oculus above. On the north and south sides splayed entrances to the narthex, the south side has a buttress with tiled weathering and on the north side a vestry with a hipped roof. INTERIOR: Whitewashed interior with brick arcades with rebated arrises rising from the piers into the high-pointed arches. The chancel arch and the arch to the narthex is similarly treated. Windows have deep splays and pointed rear-arches. Nave is open to scissor-braced common-rafter roof with two tapered chamfer fish-belly tie-beams, all painted white, except for decorated ceilures over the tie-beams and chancel ceiling. The aisles also have exposed rafter roofs. Original benches, pulpit and lectern. Piscina with canopy similar to that of windows and hexagonal font with chamfered corners. Buff-coloured tile floor and green-painted ledged doors. SOURCE: Crawford, A., A Tour in North Worcestershire, Victorian Society, Birmingham Group, [1977]. Source: https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1271415

An Anglican church built in the late 1930s by Herbert Luck North. The church is Grade II listed. Historic England description Anglican church. 1939-40; by Herbert Luck North. Whitewashed roughcast walls with exposed red brick plinth with course of blue bricks. Pantile gable-ended and hipped roofs. PLAN: Nave, chancel, north and south aisles, west narthex, tower over the sanctuary and a vestry on the north side. Scandinavian free Gothic style. EXTERIOR: The large pantile roof is carried down over aisles and is continued over the narthex at the west end, which has a rose window in the gable above. A tower with a saddle-back roof over the east end with groups of tall thin lancets with hooded triangular heads and similar louvres in the gables of the tower. Groups of similar lancets to the aisles, narthex and chancel, the east window comprises a group of very tall lancets with an oculus above. On the north and south sides splayed entrances to the narthex, the south side has a buttress with tiled weathering and on the north side a vestry with a hipped roof. INTERIOR: Whitewashed interior with brick arcades with rebated arrises rising from the piers into the high-pointed arches. The chancel arch and the arch to the narthex is similarly treated. Windows have deep splays and pointed rear-arches. Nave is open to scissor-braced common-rafter roof with two tapered chamfer fish-belly tie-beams, all painted white, except for decorated ceilures over the tie-beams and chancel ceiling. The aisles also have exposed rafter roofs. Original benches, pulpit and lectern. Piscina with canopy similar to that of windows and hexagonal font with chamfered corners. Buff-coloured tile floor and green-painted ledged doors. SOURCE: Crawford, A., A Tour in North Worcestershire, Victorian Society, Birmingham Group, [1977]. Source: https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1271415

Former Post Office Showing position of Postbox No. B60 4204. See Image] for postbox.

Outside the former Post Office. Postbox No. B60 4204. See Image] for context.