Father Lopes' Chapel (Birmingham) | place with historical importance, Grade II Listed (UK), 1890s construction

 chapel, place with historical importance, Grade II Listed (UK), 1890s construction

Featuring a fine Roman campanile, the structure was built privately as the chapel of a hostel for working boys by Father John Lopes. He was an Anglo-Catholic clergyman who in 1915, before the building was finished, joined the Church of Rome. The small basilican church was never used for services. Indeed, it has always served secular purposes.

Circa 1898-1900. Small brick built church but with considerable height to walls, in a basilican-Lombardic style with good Arts and. Crafts brickwork. The principal feature is the campanile tower to the north-west corner, triple arcaded openings to the upper stages defined by moulded and cut brick cornices; pyramidal pantile roof. Similar roof cladding to main building with deeply moulded eaves cornice. Four round arched lancets light the side elevation.

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