| St Benedict's Church, Bordesley | |
| Pushpin Map: | West Midlands |
| Map Caption: | Location in the West Midlands |
| Coordinates: | 52.4745°N -1.8405°W |
| Location: | Birmingham |
| Country: | England |
| Denomination: | Church of England |
| Dedication: | St Benedict of Nursia |
| Heritage Designation: | Grade II listed |
| Designated Date: | 8 July 1982 |
| Architect: | Nicol and Nicol |
| Style: | Byzantine Revival |
| Completed Date: | 1909 |
| Materials: | red brick with sandstone dressings |
| Deanery: | Yardley and Bordesley |
| Archdeaconry: | Aston |
| Diocese: | Birmingham |
| Province: | Canterbury |
St Benedict's Church, Bordesley is a Church of England parish church in Hob Moor Road,Bordesley, West Midlands, England,[1] about NaNmiles east of Birmingham city centre. It is an early 20th-century church in Byzantine Revival style[2] and is Grade II listed.
St Oswald's Church, Small Heath established a mission church in the area in 1898. It was a temporary iron building.[3]
The architects Nicol and Nicol of Birmingham designed the present church as its permanent replacement. It was built in 1909 and consecrated on 30 April 1910.[3] It is in Byzantine Revival style, built of red brick with red sandstone dressings. The nave is flanked by north and south aisles. Between them are five-bay arcades with round-headed arches on sandstone piers. At the west end of the north aisle is a pedimented porch. A statue of Benedict of Nursia, the church's dedicatee, stands in a niche above its door.
At the east end of the church the chancel has an apse. Inside it is a Byzantine-style painting of the apse representing Christ in Majesty, with angels, and saints in arcading, below. It was painted by Henry Holiday between 1912 and 1919.
The church was made a Grade II listed building in July 1982. Its parish archives were deposited with Birmingham Central Library in February 1998 and are now with its successor, the Library of Birmingham.[3]
St Benedict's has an organ in the north aisle of the chancel. It that was built by CH Windridge of Birmingham. It pre-dates the church, having been built in 1894–95. It was modified about 1920 by Conacher of Sheffield. It has three manuals, one set of pedals and 22 stops.[4]
St Benedict's vicarage is next door to the church in Hob Moor Road. Like the church it was designed by Nicol and Nicol. It was built in 1911–12. English Heritage made it a Grade II listed building in 1997.