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Good place for a pint

It's worth popping in, if only for a short time. beautiful and peaceful.

Always seen it from the motorway and was eager to find it on a walk

Muddy not sure if there's a better way to get here or what the route is

A bit random now but I'd imagine impressive back in the day

An interesting stop with a good café but you do have to be a NT member or pay to enter the site to access the café. The house was originally built in the 16th century but it's interiors have been extensively restored in the 1930s.

Scenic route through or stop for a rest. Don't think the cafe is open to non national trust members though.

Big ol' sign post

Very impressive view down all the locks

Great for a walk I recommend walking to Badsley Clinton

Former mortuary chapel at Umberslade near Hockley Heath, West Midlands, England, UK

Commemoration: First World War (1914-1918) Description Free standing cylindrical column and base surmounted by an urn-like structure. Decorative border around the top of pillar. Incised inscription. Inscription THE / GREAT WAR / 1914 - 1919 / IN GRATITUDE / TO / THOSE CONNECTED / WITH THIS CHURCH / WHO MADE THE / SUPREME SACRIFICE / GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAT THIS / (Names) Commemorations First World War (1914-1918) Total names on memorial: 24 Served and returned: 0 Died: 24 Exact count: yes Information shown: surname,rank,regiment,decorations Order of information: Undefined Components Pillar Measurements: Undefined Materials: Stone Listing information War memorial at Christ Church Baptist Church Grade II This memorial is protected, and listed on the National Heritage List for England maintained by Historic England.

The obelisk was constructed in 1749 by Thomas Archer, 1st Baron Archer, who owned the nearby Umberslade Hall. It seems to have been constructed during a period of re-landscaping of the parkland around Umberslade Hall. The more formal 17th-century-style park, which included several smaller obelisks near to the hall, was replaced in the mid-18th century in a more naturalistic style. The obelisk was built by William Hiorne of Warwick. There is no record of the reason for its construction; in 1905, the historian William Holden Hutton described it as "Lord Archer's monument of nothing in particular". It is possible that it commemorates Archer's elevation to the peerage (as Baron Archer of Umberslade) in July 1747. It has also been proposed that it marks the defeat of the 1745–46 Jacobite rising as Archer was a prominent member of the Whig party who opposed the rising. Other claims are that it marks the meeting place of the last coven of witches in Warwickshire or a nearby gospel tree, a place of informal Christian worship, said to date to the Norman Conquest. The construction came at a time when the erection of obelisks was popular on English country estates and the purpose of the monument may simply be to enhance the view from Umberslade Hall. It is placed so as to be prominently visible from the windows of the hall. The clergyman and writer William Field describes it as "a fine Obelisk, which forms a striking object from the windows of the house" in his 1815 book An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Town and Castle of Warwick and of the Neighbouring Spa of Leamington and, shortly after construction, Henrietta Knight, Lady Luxborough, was invited to the hall specifically to view the obelisk from its windows. Travel writer Fanny Parkes noted in 1850 that the obelisk "leans fearfully".

Umberslade Baptist Church is the last surviving major chapel of the Birmingham architect, George Ingall (1868–1910). Ingall deployed the Decorated Gothic style, enriching the church with pinnacles, finials, buttresses, and a slender tower and spire, in winter visible from the motorway. The church is constructed in a grey freestone. Inside, the timber furnishings are largely intact and include a large Gothic central pulpit. In front of it is an open baptistry for total immersion baptisms, finished in marble. Many of the benches retain their gas lamps. The stained glass is geometric and the memorial to the founder inside the church is is cast in ‘Muntz metal’, an alloy G. F. Muntz patented to great commercial success as it repelled barnacles and weed and was used to clad the wooden hulls of tea clippers and merchant ships. When restored in recent years the hull of the most famous tea clipper of them all, the Cutty Sark, was again covered in Muntz metal as it was in the vessel’s heyday.

This wooden building was used as the temporary church while the stone Umberslade Baptist Church was being built and later as a school room until well into the twentieth century. This too is now listed as is the war memorial in the burial ground.

Umberslade Baptist Church was opened in September 1877 by George Frederick Muntz, a prominent local industrialist and Baptist convert who had purchased Umberslade Hall, in the estate of which the chapel stands, in 1857. The hall was previously leased by his father, George Frederic Muntz, a Liberal MP who had built up a successful business in Handsworth. Muntz Snr was a founding member of the Birmingham Political Union, an organisation that looked to spread the right to vote to working-class men, and one of the city’s first MPs, it having been represented previously only as part of the county constituency for Warwickshire. His fortune was based on the manufacture of ‘Muntz Metal’, an alloy of copper and zinc that was used to coat the wooden hulls of ships. Muntz Snr was also instrumental in the introduction of perforated postage stamps, and was known for his extravagant beard in a time when it was fashionable to be clean-shaven. In building his chapel, Muntz Jnr sought to serve not only the needs of the estate, but also to spread Baptist worship in the local village. To this end the church is built halfway between Umberslade Hall and Hockley Heath. The chapel was built by the Birmingham-based Congregationalist architect George Ingall – it is now the major extant example of his work. The exterior Built in a Decorated Gothic style, on first appearance the church seems to be an old Anglican parish church. Made of Wilmcote stone with Bath stone dressings, the body of the chapel is a wide aisle-less rectangle aligned east and west with shallow north and south transepts. Muntz had his own special entrance to access the church, which purportedly remained shut for many years after his death. Within the surrounding grounds can be found a monument over the Muntz family vault, along with a number of other graves. A wooden church that later served as a school, also built by Muntz, stands nearby. The interior The wide unimpeded chapel makes few concessions to gothic expectations. the seating below the arch-braced timber roof has no central aisle but three ranks of pine pews facing the central pulpit, the focal point of worshippers’ attention. In the south transept there is a late 19th century organ, built by Bishop & Son. In the north transept a brass plaque can be found to Muntz Jnr, who in his old age used to listen to the sermons from the Hall via a microphone in the pulpit. The stained glass windows depict geometric patterns. Subsequent history Umberslade Baptist Church was transferred to the auspices of the Historic Chapels Trust in 1999, and the first phase of restoration was completed in 2008, in which the roof was renewed and crumbling stonework in the church and tower was repaired and replaced. However, much remains to be done.

Built in 1879 by John Cotton. Polychromatic brickwork, Early English style. Nave, chancel, south porch, north-east steeple with yellow brick spire. The ecclesiastical parish of Nuthurst cum Hockley Heath was created in 1878 with the building of the church of St Thomas in 1879. Until the formation of the new parish in 1878, Nuthurst had been a chapelry of the parish of Hampton-in-Arden, with parts in the parishes of Salter Street and Tanworth-in-Arden.

Grade II listed. A war memorial of 1921, designed by Bateman and Bateman of Birmingham and carved by John White. Of Portland stone, with bronze gnomons to the sundials. It has a triangular, stepped plinth and base, both of which have chamfered corners. This is connected by small volutes at the corner to a column, of no specific order, with a base and capital with Renaissance motifs, including further volutes to the three corners and cherubs heads. The triangular block above this has sundials to each face and chamfered corners. Above its dentilled cornice the body tapers and culminates in a finial in the form of a seated lion. A sculpted garland of bay leaves is twined around the body of the column, which has entasis. The three sundial faces are each different and each has a differently shaped bronze gnomon. Two sides of the base bear the names of the fallen. The third is inscribed TO THE GLORIOUS DEAD/IN HONOURED MEMORY/OF THE MEN /OF THIS DISTRICT/WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/FOR THEIR KING/AND COUNTRY/IN THE GREAT WAR/1914-1918/AND IN THE WORLD WAR/ 1939-1945. Carved above the three sundial faces are THE DAYS WERE SHORT and THE WORK GREAT and THEIR TIME PASSED AWAY LIKE A SHADOW. HISTORY: The war memorial was funded by a committee of subscribers at a cost of approximately £450. The site was given by the Chesshire family. It was built in memory of the men who died in the First World War who lived in a radius of two miles, which included the parishes of Lapworth, Nuthurst, Packwood and part of the parish of Tanworth. The architects were the firm of Bateman and Bateman of Birmingham and it is likely that the senior partner, C. E. Bateman who had responsibility for church designs was likely to have also designed war memorials such as this. The work was executed by John White and Sons, Sculptors, of Yardley. It was unveiled by Colonel Sir William Bowater, J. P., D. L. and was dedicated by the Reverend Canon J.A.Binnie on 2nd April, 1921.

Walk 5 part of the Millennium Way path (100 mile trail in total)

A great place to start a canal walk as there is a choice of the Stratford Canal and Grand Union Canal. There is even a circular walk which takes in both. Great to see the specialist rounded roofed buildings which are designed by those that built the canals.