SURVIVING ANTIQUITIES

1. Buildings. The oldest buildings left in Yardley are St.Edburgha's Church 13 - 15th C : the Trust School alongside, 15th C and later; Hay Hall, a 15th C hall with a 16th C solar wing. brick-encased, and a gabled SW front after 1810; Field Gate Farm, 16th C and later; and Blakesley Hall, 16th C half-timbered with brick-encased ground floor. Dating probably from the 17th C, but with an elegant Georgian casing on three sides is Pinfold (Mansfield) House.

The ruinous Tyseley Grange may also be 17th C but was much altered in the 19th C. Marston Chapel (Church of the Ascension) was built by 1704, and enlarged in the late 1850's.

Surviving 18th C farms are Yardley, Hillhouse, Moorlands, Colehall. Other buildings of the period are Cateswell, Sarehole Mill, the former Taylor Memorial Home, and cottages in Yardley village, Yardley Road, Amington Road, Arden Road, Sparkhill, Showell Green, Paradise Lane and Prince of Wales Lane. Buildings of the early and middle 19th C are Stechford and Acocks Green Stations, the Bull's Head, Stockfield Hall, Christ Church, and Robin Hood.

2. Other Antiquities. Parts of the ancient open fields of Yardley remain undeveloped as recreation grounds : these are Church Field, Stich Meadow, in Manor Road R. G., Stichford Field beside Yardley Fields Road, and Stockfield in Wynford Road R. G.

The Coldbath (before 1750) and Swanshurst (before 1759) fishpools, and Titterford millpool, survive as amenities. Titterford head and tail races, the start of Sarehole head race and the dam of Old Pool on Coldbath Brook, and the side race of Hay Mill, can still be seen. The Warwick Canal (1793-9) was widened in 1929 and afterwards, as the Grand Union, and all its humped bridges have been replaced except that on Woodcock Lane North. On the Stratford Canal (c.1795 in Yardley) only High Bridge on School Road remains. Other old bridges are Titterford, early 19th C, New Bridge before 1813 and Four Arches c.1822.