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Wycliffe Chapel Bristol Street
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A bit more info explaining the photo in post #49 from Birmingham Library archives
Date:1890 - 1898 (c.)
Description:A rare view of Bristol Street in the 1890's showing the original St Luke's Church (to the far left) which had to be demolished in 1899 due to being in an unsafe condition. A new church was built on the same site which stands to this day just by the island at Lee Bank Middleway and Bristol Street. The more grandiose bulding in the centre is the Wycliffe Baptist Church, sadly long demolished.
So to summarise, the far left of photo #49 is the earlier St Lukes. The building in post #52 is it's replacement which, also, has now been demolished
Date:1890 - 1898 (c.)
Description:A rare view of Bristol Street in the 1890's showing the original St Luke's Church (to the far left) which had to be demolished in 1899 due to being in an unsafe condition. A new church was built on the same site which stands to this day just by the island at Lee Bank Middleway and Bristol Street. The more grandiose bulding in the centre is the Wycliffe Baptist Church, sadly long demolished.
So to summarise, the far left of photo #49 is the earlier St Lukes. The building in post #52 is it's replacement which, also, has now been demolished
An engraving of the chapel
"Wycliffe Chapel, Birmingham, 1864. 'This building is in the fourteenth-century style of Gothic architecture...The chapel is used by the Baptists, and stands at the comer of Saint Luke's-street, in Bristol-road, Birmingham. It seats about 800 persons...A platform at the end of the chapel, opposite the end gallery, affords space for the pulpit - of carved stone, beautifully cut by Wood, of Lichfield - and for the baptistery, of white marble. The roofs of the chapel are divided into three, those over the galleries being arched and groined in wood, and that over the centre part being framed"
An interior plan and description of Wycliffe Chapel from The Builder in 1864.
