Holte & Priory Estate (left), site where the A38(M) highway was to be built towering over Aston (centre), Villa Park (top-right)
Priestley Point was a 12 storey tower block on the Holte & Priory Estate off Aston Hall Road, in the Nechells area of Aston, Birmingham.
The block was a brick construction, using a similar model to flats such as Home Tower, but this time using a 'y' shaped footprint. It was one of 67 tower blocks in Aston.
The block was 36 metres tall and completed in 1956, situated alongside 3 sister blocks on the estate in the shadow of 'Spaghetti Junction'. In the late 1990s the 3 imposing cooling towers of nearby Nechells Power Station were detonated to make way for Star City.
It was demolished in 2001 with the rest of the Holte & Priory Estate.
Nearby tower blocks
- James Watt Point (demolished 2001)
- Boulton Point (demolished 2001)
- Murdoch Point (demolished 2001)
- Carbrooke House (demolished 2002)
- Normansell Tower (demolished 2012)
- Osbourne Tower (to be demolished 2016)