A walk around Bewdley II

   This second of these blogposts on Bewdley concentrates on the buildings in and around the High St perhaps the finest streetscape in the town. The parish church - provincial Baroque and none the worse for that - dates from 1745-8 and is by Edward and Thomas Woodward of Chipping Camden in Gloucestershire. The west tower is however earlier, dating from the end of the previous century.  In fact there is quite a bit of Baroque detailing in the town, as there is downstream in Worcester.  I'm not sure why but the West Midlands does seem to be a centre of the English Baroque.

   On Sunday afternoon we drove into Birmingham and to the southern suburb of King's Norton where there are further relatives. The late Medieval tower on the parish church is a particularly fine design constructed from local sandstone. Around it are a few ancient buildings, the whole group looking a little out of place, but welcome, amongst suburbia.