The solid and imposing tower of and back wall of St. John’s Church, Ladywood; are typical in style of the urban parish churches built in large numbers during the second half of the 19th Century. Its design harks back the middle ages, but it comparative regularity and sense of symmetry shows it to be a product of the industrial age. Birmingham is not built on sandstone, so the churches’ builders must have had to transport the rock from which it is built some distance.
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