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Manplan 5: Religion
Manplan 5: Religion & Environment
Publication date: March 1970
Series editor: Tom Rock
Consultant editor: Lance Wright
Guest photographer: Peter Baistow
For more images, see: Manplan 5
Click for further information on the exhibition: Wide-Angle View: architecture as social space in the Manplan series 1969-70, 13 September 2023 to 24 February 2024.
High-rise flats and multi-storey car park, Birmingham
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 5: Religion' in Architectural Review, vol. 147, 1970 Mar.
St Mary's, Battersea, flanked by a Victorian flour mill and towers of the Somerset Estate, London
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 5: Religion' in Architectural Review, vol. 147, 1970 Mar. St Mary's opened in 1777 to designs by Joseph Dixon; the Somerset Estate (1967) was designed by the GLC Architects Department and the flour mill has since been replaced by the Montevetro block of luxury flats.
Anglican Church of St Joseph the Worker, Yeading Lane, Northolt, London
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 5: Religion' in Architectural Review, vol. 147, 1970 Mar.
Bull Ring shopping centre, Birmingham
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 5: 'Religion and Environment' in Architectural Review, vol. 147, 1970 Mar.
Juxtaposition of the old and the new in the city centre, Birmingham
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 5: 'Religion and Environment' in Architectural Review, vol. 147, 1970 Mar.
Bull Ring shopping centre and market, Birmingham
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 5: 'Religion and Environment' in Architectural Review, vol. 147, 1970 Mar. The Bull Ring shopping centre was designed by the Birmingham City Architects Department and built between 1961 and 1964. The inner ring road passing through the centre was constructed between 1967 and 1971.
Bull Ring shopping centre square, Birmingham
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 5: 'Religion and Environment' in Architectural Review, vol. 147, 1970 Mar.
Fish-eye lens view of the Rotunda, Bull Ring, Birmingham
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 5: 'Religion and Environment' in Architectural Review, vol. 147, 1970 Mar. The Bull Ring shopping centre was designed by the Birmingham City Architects Department and built between 1961 and 1964. The Rotunda was designed by James A. Roberts in 1964-1965.
Pedestrians queuing for the escalator from the Bull Ring to New Street, Birmingham
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 5: 'Religion and Environment' in Architectural Review, vol. 147, 1970 Mar.
Pedestrians walking through the Bull Ring underpass, Birmingham
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 5: 'Religion and Environment' in Architectural Review, vol. 147, 1970 Mar.
Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, Southwark, London
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 5: 'Religion and Environment' in Architectural Review, vol. 147, 1970 Mar.
Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, Southwark, London
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 5: 'Religion and Environment' in Architectural Review, vol. 147, 1970 Mar.
Double-decker bus passing under the Hammersmith flyover, London
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 5: 'Religion and Environment' in Architectural Review, vol. 147, 1970 Mar. This elevated road in west London is one of the first examples employing reinforced concrete balanced cantilever beam supports with a single central column. It carries the A4 arterial road over and to one side of the central Hammersmith gyratory system, linking together the Cromwell Road extension with the start of the Great West Road.
Barons Arms public house dwarfed by local authority housing, 1 Cornbury Road off Rotherhithe New Road, London
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 5: 'Religion and Environment' in Architectural Review, vol. 147, 1970 Mar.
Road signage on Hampstead Road approaching the junction of Tottenham Court Road and Euston Road, Camden, London
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 5: 'Religion and Environment' in Architectural Review, vol. 147, 1970 Mar.
Friends in prayer, Quaker Meeting House, Bush Road, Wanstead, Redbridge, London
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 5: 'Religion and Environment' in Architectural Review, vol. 147, 1970 Mar.
Quaker Meeting House, Bush Road, Wanstead, Redbridge, London: the series of four hexagonal pavilions seen from the graveyard
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 5: 'Religion and Environment' in Architectural Review, vol. 147, 1970 Mar. Elizabeth Fry's headstone stands in this burial ground, although she and her husband are in fact buried at the Barking burial ground, now leased to the local authority as a pocket park with no headstones present.
Crisis at Christmas candlelit vigil, St Paul's Churchyard, City of London
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 5: 'Religion and Environment' in Architectural Review, vol. 147, 1970 Mar.
Salvation Army officiers picnicking on the steps of the figure group Asia by J H Foley, Albert Memorial, Kensington Gardens, London
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 5: 'Religion and Environment' in Architectural Review, vol. 147, 1970 Mar.
St Mary the Virgin, St Mary in the Marsh, Kent
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 5: 'Religion and Environment' in Architectural Review, vol. 147, 1970 Mar.
St Andrew's shared Roman Catholic and Anglican Church under construction, junction of Elmshot Lane and Washington Drive, Cippenham, Slough
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 5: 'Religion and Environment' in Architectural Review, vol. 147, 1970 Mar. This was the first shared Roman Catholic and Church of England purpose built church in England.
Roman Catholic Church of St Gregory the Great, Grange Road, New Arlesford, Hampshire: extinguished altar candles and chalice
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 5: 'Religion and Environment' in Architectural Review, vol. 147, 1970 Mar.
Christ Church Roman Catholic Church, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire: an extinguished altar candle with the sanctuary lamp flickering in the background
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 5: 'Religion and Environment' in Architectural Review, vol. 147, 1970 Mar.
St Margaret's Roman Catholic Church, Twickenham, London: mother being dropped off at the entrance
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 5: 'Religion and Environment' in Architectural Review, vol. 147, 1970 Mar.
Anglican Church of St Philip and St James, Hodge Hill, Birmingham: children watching social activities in the games hall from the coffee bar
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 5: 'Religion and Environment' in Architectural Review, vol. 147, 1970 Mar. Commissioned by the Anglican Diocese of Birmingham, this multi-use complex was designed by the Institute for the Study of Worship at Birmingham University and the Live Projects Department of the Birmingham School of Architecture and led by Martin Purdy, project architect. After extensive consultation with the vicar and parishioners, a pre-school nursery, workshop, cinema, day centre for old people, library, lounge, art room, games spaces and bar were included in the final project. The church closed in 2008 when the high cost of repairs to the building was deemed uneconomic.
St Saviour's church hall, Eton Road, South Hampstead, London
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 5: 'Religion and Environment' in Architectural Review, vol. 147, 1970 Mar.
Anti-apartheid demonstration, Trafalgar Square, London
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NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 5: 'Religion and Environment' in Architectural Review, vol. 147, 1970 Mar.