St. Nicolas’ Place

Title: St. Nicolas’ Place

Built in: Fifteenth century

Location: 82 The Green, Kings Norton, Birmingham B38 8RU

Short intro: Birmingham’s largest collection of medieval and Tudor buildings

Description: Saint Nicolas’ Place is made up of several medieval and Tudor buildings: the Tudor Merchant's House, Old Grammar School and St. Nicolas’ Church have survived since the fifteenth century. Visitors can experience the houses in restored condition; how they may have originally looked.  The Merchant’s house is a large building with its original five-hundred-year-old timbers and exposed wattle and daub that shows how Tudor buildings were constructed. The Old Grammar School is one of the oldest school buildings in the united kingdom, with its original structure, and Tudor decorations intact. St. Nicholas’ Church is the oldest building of them all: a Norman church built in 1231, and with more additions over the centuries, such as a fifteenth-century spire standing sixty metres high.