The Saint Augustine Conservation Area is on the north side of the A456 Hagley Road in the Rotton Park area of Edgbaston.

The designated area provides a setting for Saint Augustine's of Hippo which is a Gothic Revival church with a landmark spire that was designed by JA Chatwin in the 1860's.

The church stands on a grassed roundabout at the end of a tree-lined avenue with a direct visual axis to the Hagley Road. The surrounding streets contain many substantial Victorian houses set in ample mature gardens.

Listed buildings include a semi-detached pair of villas (1896) at 17-19 Rotton Park Road with gabled porches, floriated door plaques and leaded casement windows and a two-storey brick townhouse (1861) at 17 Portland Road with an Ionic entrance porch, cornice-bracketed windows and decorative stone quoins.

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Saint Augustine's stands on a grassed-over traffic island in the Rotton Park area of Edgbaston. Designed by JA Chatwin in the 1860's, it was built in sandstone and limestone banding with an apsidal chancel, north chancel, nave and aisles.

The tower and spire were added in 1876; they are 55 metres tall and the highest in Birmingham; a narthex was added in 1968.

The interior, which is faced with ashlar, contains a painted ceiling; carvings by John Roddis, windows by Hardman, and reredos inspired by Leonardo's Last Supper.