It is situated on the southern side of the main Birmingham to Coventry Road A45 at the end of a lane called the Fordrough that leads to the factory of Webster & Horsfall Ltd.
[5] To this, designed by Frank Barlow Osborn[6] but often wrongly ascribed to Martin & Chamberlain, and built by William Partridge was added the nave, the side aisles, the gallery, porch, tower, spire and vestries.
It consists of a Nave, with a hammer beam roof, large plate tracery, clerestory windows and low, narrow aisles to North and South, whose bays are demarcated each by buttresses with a single lancet window, a chancel, with a barrelled roof, at the West end, vestries with a gallery above.
In the South West corner there is a porch tower with a slated broach spire with 2 tiers of lucarnes[8] it contains a bell bearing the date 1749.
This is in the tradition and position of a medieval chantry chapel for the saying of prayers or masses for the benefactor or founder of a church or abbey.
The restoration was made possible by a donation from a late parishioner and the windows blessed at Easter 2010 with the following words; Almighty and eternal God, we give you thanks and praise for these stained glass images of your saints.
Bless and sanctify these windows made in honour and in memory of your only begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ and of these saints.
[16] The centre window has at the top St Cyprian engaged in preaching and below his martyrdom by being beheaded[1] as a distraught clergyman holds his vestments.
[5] Left: St Bertha, Queen of Kent whose influence led to the introduction of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England.
Left: St Edith crowned and holding a crook symbolic of her royal lineage but who chose to be a humble nun.
[20] Left St Barbara crowned and with a chalice and a castle, the patron saints of artillery and dangerous trades.
[27] Right: St Lois the maternal grandmother of Timothy, she is commended by Paul for her faith [28] here she is depicted carrying an open book in which are the words " Let thy saints rejoice in goodness".
[29] Left: Santa Maria Mag (Mary Magdalene) with the alabaster pot containing the oil with which she annoited the feet of Jesus.
One to James Andrew Coldwell Horsfall, Lance Corporal Royal Irish Rangers who died in a military accident saving the lives of 9 comrades in 1973.
Another to Flying Officer, George David Coldwell Horsfall, Royal Air Force, who went missing from operations over the French coast on the night of 15 May 1944.
There are also two brass plate memorials here Beneath the lancet window of St Jacobus (James, son of Alphaeus) Beneath the lancet window of St Paulus (St Paul) Situated in the North aisle is a private First World War Memorial to Captain Joseph Arthur Brearley and his brother Norman Blackburn Brearley, son's of Harry and Annie Brearley, of 225, Charles Rd., Small Heath, Birmingham.
Arthur, after being educated at King Edwards Grammar, Handsworth and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, became a schoolteacher in Exeter and joined the 1/6th Cyclists Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment in April 1914.
He was killed on 20 June 1917 during the Battle of Messines Ridge, and the Battalion War diary records, "Gas discharged on Jackdaw and Jam Avenue.
[33] His brother, Norman Blackburn Brearley was with A company, 9th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment and was killed in action on 19 April 1916.
The battalion War Diary records at 0700 whilst attacking a Turkish Trench at Beit aiessa, on the right hand bank of the Tigris.
It bears a plaque with the following inscription "To commemorate with grateful thanks the rebuilding of this organ through the generosity of church members and friends.
St Cyprians has a modern church hall, situated nearby available for hire, which is also used by religious groups of different faiths.
A small memorial garden in front of the church which was renovated and replanted by volunteers from the congregation during the summer of 2009 and blessed by the retiring vicar Tony Johnson in April 2010.