Former Father Lopes' Chapel from Digbeth Court Car Park

            Former Father Lopes' Chapel from Digbeth Court Car Park.

The building and the land near it, including the burnt out ruins next to it, are for sale.

This building is deceptive. It was formerly the St Edmunds' Boys' Home. Behind this is the architectural oddity, 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.

The former St Edmunds' Boy's  Home was designed by Mansell & Mansell. Two simple brick bays of 1912 fronting Deritend, then a bedroom extension with a wooden casement window, and a five-bay block of 1913 - 14 with hipped roof. Set back, the chapel of 1913 in Early Christian style, above a ground-floor workshop. Not quite as impressive as Dixon's or Ball's work (e.g. St Basil) but with an impressive campanile, closely based on that of S Giorgio in Velabro in Rome. The interior has an inserted floor, but retains a rich painte timber roof with king-post trusses on big consoles.

From: Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy Foster

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Taken in: UK / England / Digbeth (show map)

Taken on: December 11, 2022

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