St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham
The Cathedral Church of Saint Philip is a Church of England cathedral and the seat of the Bishop of Birmingham. Built as a parish church in the Baroque style by Thomas Archer, it was consecrated in 1715. Located on Colmore Row in central Birmingham, St Philip's became the cathedral of the newly formed Diocese of Birmingham in 1905. The cathedral is a Grade I listed building.
The cathedral viewed from the south in March 2014
Statue of Charles Gore, the 1st Bishop of Birmingham, by Thomas Stirling Lee
The Altar
The dome of the western tower
Thomas Archer (1668–1743) was an English Baroque architect. His buildings are important as the only ones by an English Baroque architect to show evidence of study of contemporary continental, namely Italian, architecture.
Thomas Archer
St. John's, Smith Square
St. John's, Smith Square
Thomas Archer's garden pavilion at Wrest Park, 2007