Mediaeval Birmingham

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 Mediaeval Birmingham is one of 20 walks featured in this handy pocket booklet compiled by Archaeologist Dr Mike Hodder and Sue Whitehouse from Birmingham Museums Trust.

It's an intriguing walk, and helps to establish a vision of Birmingham's mediaeval past with clarity and ease, combined with a few surprises.

The ever changing nature of modern cities can soon render these descriptive walks obsolete, but in this case, the 1000+ year history maintains an existing and  centralised focus around St Martin's Church, with reference to nearby archaeological excavations.

Mediaeval features mentioned -

1. Pinfold Street - part of the mediaeval road between Birmingham and Dudley

2. New Street - Temple Street crossroads, broadened at this point to form a market place in mediaeval times.

3. New Street - the site of the Guild Hall of The Holy Cross

4. Nelson monument - looking over the mediaeval market place next to St Martin's Church and the nearby  manor house 

5. Mediaeval walling and stone effigies inside St Martin's Church

6. Gloucester Street Indoor Markets - excavated site of mediaeval tanning

7. Upper Dean Street looking over the site of the manor house  and excavated moat and wall of one of the 13th century buildings

8. Park Street - underneath Selfridges, a 12th century boundary ditch between the grounds of the manor house and a deer park.

9. High Street, another widened road for a market place

10. Dale End - the edge of the mediaeval town

11. Priory Square - named after the mediaeval priory or Hospital of St. Thomas




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