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St James is a former parish church in the Church of England in Edgbaston, Birmingham,〔The Buildings of England. Warwickshire. Nikolaus Pevsner. Penguin Books. ISBN 0140710310 p.165〕 which has now been converted into apartments. ==History== The foundation stone was laid in 1851〔Aris’s Birmingham Gazette. Monday 20 January 1851. p.3.〕 and the church was built to designs by Samuel Sanders Teulon in the French Gothic Style. The church was consecrated on Tuesday 1 June 1852 by the Bishop of Worcester.〔Aris’s Birmingham Gazette, Monday 7 June 1852. p.1. Consecration of St James’s Church, Edgbaston〕 A restoration and cleaning was undertaken in 1867, when improvements were made to the heating and lighting of the church.〔Aris’s Birmingham Gazette. Saturday 7 September 1867. p.8.〕 On being made redundant by the Church of England in 1967, the building was empty and became vandalised. It was converted by Astley Towne Developments into residential apartments in 2004 at a cost of £1.2m. The conversion won the following awards: *Special Design Award, 2004 Birmingham Post and Mail’s House Design Awards *2005 Renaissance Award, Birmingham Civic Society *2007 Award for Building Conservation, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Awards. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St James' Church, Edgbaston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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