St Nicholas Church, Radford – Richard Twentyman, 1957

Emmanuel Church, Bentley – Richard Twentyman, 1956

St Chad’s Church, Rubery – Richard Twentyman, 1960

All Saints Church, Darlaston – Richard Twentyman, 1952

Bushbury Crematorium – Richard Twentyman, 1954

GKN Research Laboratories and Offices, Birmingham New Road, Wolverhampton – Richard Twentyman, 1954

Wolverhampton Gas Company Offices, Darlington Street, Wolverhampton – Richard Twentyman, 1938

The Pilot, Wolverhampton – Richard Twentyman, 1937

The Red Lion, Wolverhampton – Richard Twentyman, 1938

The Spring Hill, Penn – Richard Twentyman, 1937

Richard Twentyman, an architect from Wolverhampton, designed some wonderful Modernist buildings around the middle of the twentieth century, most of which (sadly unlike that of fellow titan of West Midlands-Modernism John Madin) can still be found standing around the Midlands today.

The influence of the Bauhaus is clear to see in much of his work, no doubt a result of his time spent studying at the radical Architectural Association in London during the 1920’s.

What I find particularly interesting about his body of work, is the curious and unlikely combination of pubs and churches that he decided to turn his hand to across the Black Country. Perhaps with Friday and Saturday nights drinking in the pub and Sunday morning at church, I quite like the idea that there were Black Country folk who may have spent most of their weekend in one of Richard Twentyman’s buildings, for one reason or another.