Sujet

St John's Church, High Street Deritend, Deritend, Birmingham, 1941. Creator: George Bernard Mason.

Légende

St John's Church, High Street Deritend, Deritend, Birmingham, 1941. The south elevation and tower of St John's Church showing bomb damage. This building of 1735 replaced an earlier chapel of 1380. By 1939 it had ceased to be used for worship and its fate was sealed when it was damaged by enemy bombing in 1940. It was demolished in 1947. The Bull Ring Trading Estate now occupies the site.

Date

1941

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Notre référence

HRM21B16_031

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

67,8Mo (2,7Mo) / 36,5cm x 46,6cm / 4307 x 5499 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building England religious architecture country religion British English church damage Christian Christianity war location century Britain wartime concept Birmingham georgian B&W 1940s warfare west midlands Forties bombed World War II World War two WWII bombing black & white black and white B W world war 2 18th century 20th century air raid Blitz Eighteenth Century aerial warfare bomb damage church tower decade Home Front Second World War St John's Church TGN WW2 outside photograph 2nd World War Church of St John George Bernard Mason Mason George Bernard Deritend Historic England