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Churches in Birmingham
This directory of churches in Birmingham is divided into four categories:
Anglican Churches in Birmingham
The following landmark Anglican churches are located in Birmingham:
Saint Phillip's Cathedral is on Colmore Row in the Business Quarter; it was designed by Thomas Archer in the baroque style and built as a parish church in 1711-15.
St Philips only became a cathedral after the Church of England Diocese of Birmingham was created in 1904.
It is built in brick and faced in stone; the design was inspired by the Italian baroque architect Bernini; his influence is apparent in the convex west tower, dome, lantern, parapets, balustrades and broad-arched windows; the rooftop urns were added in 1756.
JA Chatwin enlarged the chancel and added a semi-circular apse in the 1880's. The interior contains windows by Edward Burne-Jones, an organ case by Thomas Schwarbrick and chancel rails in the style of Tijou.
T 0121 262 1840 Address: Colmore Row B3 2QB
Business Quarter - Colmore Row Conservation Area - Birmingham Cathedral Website
Church of the Ascension Stirchley (Top)
The Church of the Ascension is located on Pineapple Grove in the Dads Lane Estate at Stirchley.
It is the second Church of Ascension to be built in Stirchley; the first, which stood on Hazlewell Street, was destroyed by fire in 1965.
The current church, which was completed in 1973, was built on the same plot as Saint Hugh's: a daughter church of the first Church of Ascension and now a church hall.
The current Church of Ascension is a brick octagonal building.
The interior contains stained glass, altar silver, processional crosses and Stations of the Cross rescued from the old church. There is a chapel dedicated to Our Lady and Saint Hugh.
T 0121 443 1371 Address: 18 Pineapple Grove B30 2TJ
Guide Stirchley Church of the Ascension Website
Holy Trinity Sutton Coldfield (Top)
Holy Trinity is the historic parish church of Sutton Coldfield. It is located on Church Hill on the north side of the town centre.
Holy Trinity dates from 1300 but only the plinth and buttress beneath the East Window survive from the original church which was rebuilt by Bishop Vesey in the 1530's.
Bishop Vesey's tomb is in the north Chapel; his effigy was carved in 1555, but the altar on which it rests and the choir stalls and screens were added in 1875; they were made from oak panelling discarded by Worcester Cathedral.
The church was enlarged through the addition of a north aisle and gallery in 1879. The present font was added at the same time.
The chancel ceiling was painted by C.E.Bateman in 1914; Bateman also decorated the nave and Vesey Chapel in 1929.
T 0121 321 1144 Address: 7 Church Hill B72 1TF
Sutton Coldfield Town - Sutton Coldfield Conservation Area - Holy Trinity Website
St Alban's is the C of E parish church of Highgate; it was designed in the 13th Century Style by John Loughborough Pearson and built in brick and stone in 1881.
The church consists of an apsidal chancel, transepts, north & south chapels and a nave with aisles and clerestory; the south-west tower was added in 1938.
T 0121 777 1120 Address: Conybere Street B12
Guide Highgate St Albans Website
Saint Agatha's is on the Stratford Road in Sparkbrook; it was designed in the Gothic style by W.H.Bidlake and built in red and blue brick with stone dressings in 1900.
The church consists of a chancel, a six-bay nave with aisles and clerestory, and a west tower with clock and corner turrets.
There are reliefs above the south door that show the Christian martyr Saint Agatha with her Roman tormentor Quintanius and above the north door, which depict her chained in a dungeon. A statue in the nave portrays Saint Agatha with pincers, the instrument of her torture.
The Blessed Sacrament Chapel features an altar of green Westmorland stone whilst the Baptistery contains the panelling, font & foundation stone from the 18th century Christ Church which once stood in Victoria Square and whose sale and demolition financed the construction of St Agatha's.
T 0121 449 2790 Address: Stratford Road B11 1AG
Guide Sparkbrook St Agatha's Website
Saint Agnes in the Wake Green area of Moseley stands on a traffic island at the junction of Colmore Crescent, Dyott Road and Saint Agnes Road.
The church was built in the 1880's in order to serve the newly urbanised area south of Wake Green Road. It was designed by William Davis and constructed in rock-faced sandstone with buttressed aisles, a nave, short transepts and chancel.
The west tower was added in 1936; it stands directly opposite Oxford Road and dominates the western approach.
T 0121 449 7132 Address: Colmore Crescent B13 9SJ
Links: Wake Green St Agnes Website
St Anne's is located on Park Hill in Moseley Village; it was designed in the Gothic Style by Frederick Preedy and built in stone in 1870-73.
The church comprises a chancel, a nave with aisles and clerestory, and a north-west tower and spire; the vestry was added in 1898 and the baptistery in 1923.
The church contains several impressive windows made as replacements for the original stained glass which was destroyed in the Birmingham Blitz.
0121 449 1071 Park Hill B13 8DU
Guide Moseley Village St Anne's Website
Saint Augustine's Edgbaston (Top)
Saint Augustine's in the Rotton Park area of Edgbaston stands on a purpose-built traffic island; the south tower faces a broad tree-lined avenue that creates a visual axis with the Hagley Road (A456).
The church was designed by J.A. Chatwin and built in sandstone with limestone banding in the late 1860's. It consists of an apsidal chancel, a north chancel, nave and aisles.
The 55-metre tower and spire, the tallest in Birmingham, were built in 1876; a narthex was added to mark the church centenary in 1968.
The ashlar-faced interior contains a painted chancel ceiling, carvings by John Roddis, windows by Hardman and reredos inspired by Da Vinci's Last Supper. Saint Augustine's was the first church in Birmingham to have a surpliced choir.
T 0121 454 8242 Address: 9 Lyttleton Road B16 9JN
Rotton Park - St Augustine's Conservation Area - St Augustine's Website
Saint Barnabas' Erdington (Top)
The Church of Saint Barnabas (circa 1822) on Erdington High Street was designed in the Decorated Style by Thomas Rickman and built in stone with a crenellated parapet.
The church initially consisted of a four-bay nave without aisles, a west gallery on a cusped iron screen and a west tower with angle buttresses. The chancel and transepts were added by J.A. Chatwin in 1883. The fifth bay of both transepts is inclined to compensate for the difference in width between the nave and chancel.
The interior contained eight Georgian stained-glass windows, also by Rickman, but these were damaged by fire in 2007 when
the church was completely gutted.St Barnabas' will be be rebuilt with the addition of a controversial modern foyer that will feature a glazed facade and steel roof.
The foyer will create a new entrance from Erdington High Street and screen the church from an unsightly Poundland retail store.
However, critics believe that it is an inappropriate addition to an historic listed building.
Links: Guide Erdington Town
St Bartholomew's Edgbaston (Top)
St Bartholomew's on Church Road in the Calthorpe area of Edgbaston originated as a mediaeval chapel attached to Edgbaston Hall; however, the current church dates from the 15th and 16th centuries and was largely rebuilt by J.A.Chatwin in the Perpendicular Style during the 19th century.
St Bartholomew's consists of a Lady Chapel, chancel, nave and transepts (1889), south aisle (1856), north aisle (circa 1490), stone porch (17th century) and west tower (16th/17th centuries).
The interior contains impressive 18th and 19th century wall tablets, including several by William Hollins.
0121 454 0070 Church Road B15 2UW
Guide Calthorpe - Edgbaston Conservation Area - St Bartholomew's Website
Saint Chad's is on Hollyfield Road in the Reddicap area of Sutton Coldfield; it was designed by C.E. Bateman and built in Hornton stone in 1925-27.
The church comprises a vestry, organ chamber, gabled west porch, canopied chapel, chancel with steel-truss ceiling and a nave with arcaded aisles supported by steel-clad columns.
The exterior is rusticated with the stone laid as rubble in slender courses; the interior contains elaborate plasterwork & gilded reredos flanked by statues; the altar features three mosaic panels; the font has a spired canopy suspended from a cantilevered beam.
Address: Hollyfield Road B75 7SN
Guide Reddicap St Chad's Website
Saint Cyprian's stands at the entrance to a steel-wire factory built by James Horsfield in Hay Mills in the 1850's.
The church was designed in the Gothic Style by Chamberlain & Martin and built in red-brick with black-brick and stone dressings in 1873. The project was financed by James Horsfield.
The nave is illuminated by a clerestory and flanked by low narrow aisles; the south-west tower is capped by a slate broach-spire; the tympanum above the west entrance contains an image of the Transfiguration.
The interior features some excellent stained glass; there is a stone font with a white marble angel holding a large shell and a memorial dedicated to Horsfield's daughter, Mary Sims.
Links: Hay Mills Address: Fordrough B25 8DL
St. Edburgha's is located on Church Road in Yardley; it is a sandstone church dating from the 13th century with a chancel, nave, aisles, west tower & octagonal spire.
The chancel & nave were rebuilt and the transepts added in the 14th century whilst the north aisle, timber-framed porch, spire & tower date from the 15th century.
The chancel was enlarged & the vestry added in the 1890's.
The interior contains a Jacobean pulpit & panelling and an alabaster slab (1492) inscribed Thomas & Marion Est. The West Window features a Last Supper by Hardman (1892).
The chancel contains an unusual monument consisting of a curtained cave with statues of former vicar Henry Greswolde and his wife surrounded by medallion portraits of their eleven children (circa 1700).
The spire, which was last rebuilt in 1898, is currently in a state of disrepair and at risk of collapse; a rebuild is planned for 2011 (News Archive 18/02/10).
T 0121 783 4736 Address: Church Road B33 8PD
Yardley - Old Yardley Conservation Area - St Edburgha's Website
The church of Saint Francis (1905) on Linden Road in Bournville was designed in the Romanesque style by William Alexander and paid for by George Cadbury. The church is built in red-brick and consists of a chancel, nave and baptistry; it is the C of E parish church of Bournville.
A tympanum by William Bloye above the north door depicts Saint Francis feeding the birds. Another by John Poole above the south door portrays the saint as a builder of churches.
The organ was taken from the girl's dining-room at the Bournville chocolate factory.
A Cadbury employee, Francis Ames, designed the lectern in the form of an eagle perched on a globe.
Links: Bournville - Bournville Conservation Area - St Francis' Website
St George's stands on a traffic island at the junction of Westbourne Road, Calthorpe Road and Highfield Road in the Chad Valley area of Edgbaston. Designed in the Early English Style by J.J. Scholes, the church was built in sandstone with a nave and aisle in 1838.
A chancel was added by Charles Edge in 1856 and a second chancel and nave were built by J.A.Chatwin in 1885. Edge's chancel was then converted into the Lady Chapel and the original nave became the south aisle.
Despite these alterations, the accentuated stone arcades of the original church remain visible.
Chatwin's nave has a high ceiling with Early English decoration whilst the Lady Chapel contains stained glass by C.E. Kempe. Other notable features include the choir stalls & parclose screen (1885), the organ case (1890) and the Lady Chapel Screen (1906).
T 0121 454 2303 Address: 1 Westbourne Crescent B15 3DQ
Links: Chad Valley
- Edgbaston Conservation Area - St Georges WebsiteSt Laurence's Northfield (Top)
Saint Laurence's in Northfield is mediaeval in origin; it was built in locally-quarried grey sandstone.
The base of the tower, the pillars of the chancel arch & the north nave doorway date from around 1170; the nave & chancel date from the 13th century; the south aisle was built in the 14th century and the south porch in the 15th century; a matching north aisle was added in 1900.
The middle section of the tower dates from the 13th century and the upper section from the 15th century.
There are two extremely-worn animal heads on the south side of the tower and two on the north side; they are 11th century corbels and were probably recycled from an earlier church.
Address: 173 Church Road B31 2LX
- Northfield Conservation Area - St Georges WebsiteSaint Martins in the Bullring (Top)
Saint-Martins-in-the-Bullring is the historic parish church of Birmingham; it was first built in the late 13th century; however, little remains of the original church. The tower and spire were restored in 1835 and the rest was rebuilt in sandstone by J.A. Chatwin in 1873.
Chatwin's design included transepts, a hammer-beam roof, and an extended nave and chancel. The south transept window is by Burne-Jones. The West Window is a reproduction of Hardman's original which was destroyed in the Blitz.
The Guild Chapel contains the city's oldest monument: a sandstone effigy of Sir William Bermingham (circa 1325)The choir stalls were made from the beams of the rebuilt mediaeval church & the Prayer Chapel features a rising-flame sculpture depicting the soul's journey to God.
There is a four-tier cascading font by the west door.
T 0121 600 6020 Address: Bullring B5 5BB
St Martin's Website
Saint Mary's is the C of E parish church of Handsworth; it dates from 1160 but was almost completely rebuilt in the 19th century; the church comprises a chancel, nave, aisles, transepts and south tower.
Saint Mary's was the parish church of Mathew Boulton, James Watt and Richard Murdoch who were partners in the firm of Boulton and Watt which manufactured the world's first commercially viable industrial steam engines.
All three men are interred inside the church which contains monuments to each; there is a marble statue of James Watt by Francis Chantrey in the south-east chapel; a marble bust of Mathew Boulton on the north wall of the sanctuary; and a bust of William Murdoch on the south wall of the sanctuary.
The bust of William Murdock misspells his name as Murdock; Boulton's bust set in an oval frame supported by two cherubs holding an engraving of his Soho Manufactory.
Links: Guide Handsworth
Saint Mary's in Moseley Village was first built as a chapel of ease in the 15th century; the west tower dates from the early 16th century and the rest of the church was rebuilt in brick with stone facings in the Decorated Style in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
J.A.Chatwin added the north aisle in 1886, the side chapel in 1897 and the parapet crenellation to the west tower in 1898; his son P.B. Chatwin rebuilt the nave and south aisle in 1910.
The church requested planning permission for the installation of 42 solar roof panels in January 2010.
Opponents claimed that the panels would be detrimental to the historic character of the building (News Archive 30/01/10).
T 0121 449 2243 Address: St Mary's Row B13 8HWLinks: Moseley Village
St Mary's Website
St Mary's is on the Bristol Road in Selly Oak; it was designed by Edward Holmes and built in sandstone in the Decorated Gothic style in 1861.
The church consists of a chancel, nave, transepts and a 45-metre north-west tower and spire; it was endowed by George Elkington, owner of the silver electro-plating factory in the Jewellery Quarter, and built on land donated by local squire Joseph Ledsham. The interior contains a plaque in memory of both these men and a series of stained-glass windows dedicated to members of the Elkington family.
The High Altar features painted and gilded Bath stone reredos; there is an oak lectern in the form of an eagle at the crossing of the chancel and transepts; the stone pulpit features oak panelling and marble pillars; the baptistery contains an octagonal stone font (1861) by W Butterfield.
Address: 923 Bristol Road B29 6ND
St Mary's WebsiteSt Nicholas' Kings Norton (Top)
Saint Nicholas' on Kings Norton Green is the C of E parish church of Kings Norton.
The church was originally built as a Norman chapel on the site of the present chancel. The length of this chapel was extended and its width doubled by aisles during the 13th century.
The chancel arch, nave & aisles were built in the 14th century and the stone porch and west tower were added in the 15th century.
The south aisle was rebuilt in the 17th century and the north aisle in the 1860's.
The tower features corner pinnacles and a crocketed spire; the interior contains two reset 12th century windows and Tudor & Jacobean monuments, including the alabaster altar tomb of Sir Richard Grevis, a favourite of James I, which features impressive strapwork and effigies of the deceased & his wife.
T 0121 458 3289 Address: 81 The Green B38 8RU
Links: Kings Norton Village
- Kings Norton Conservation Area - St Nicholas' WebsiteSaint Paul's Jewellery Quarter (Top)
Saint Paul's in the Jewellery Quarter was built in ashlar by Roger Eykyn in 1776-79; the belfry and spire were added by Francis Goodwin in 1823; they are modelled on Saint-Martins-in-the-Field at Trafalgar Square in London.
Saint Paul's has a shallow chancel which allows for a long nave with a west porch and vestries; the interior contains original Georgian box pews and a three-sided gallery on Ionic columns; the East Window (1785) by Francis Eginton depicts scenes from the life of Saint Paul.
Other treasures include wall tablets by the sculptor William Hollins to whom an aisle window is dedicated, a marble bust of Hollins by his son Peter, and the Millennium Window which depicts molten silver pouring onto a map of the Jewellery Quarter.
The church enjoys excellent acoustics and classical concerts are regularly held there.
T 0121 236 7858 Address: St Paul's Square B3 1QZ
- Jewellery Quarter Conservation Area - St Paul's Website
The C of E parish church of Saints Peter and Paul on Witton Lane in Aston is the only church in Birmingham that was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.
However, little remains of the original church which J.A.Chatwin rebuilt in sandstone in the 1880's.
Saints Peter & Paul consists of an apsidal chancel, a 7-bay nave with aisles illuminated by a clerestory, a south porch and a 15th century west tower and spire. Only the tower, spire and some reset 14th century stonework in the south aisle pre-date Chatwin's rebuild.
The interior contains monuments to the Holte, Erdington and Devereux families, once the respective lords of Aston, Erdington and Castle Bromwich.
Links:
Aston - Aston Conservation Area - Aston Church Website
Saint Peters stands on Old Church Road in Harborne; it is Saxon in origin but was rebuilt in the 19th century; only the west tower (circa 1340) pre-dates the rebuild.
If the mediaeval tower is viewed from the Victorian vicarage, the west door, belfry and clock appear out of line. This is because it was completed by unskilled labourers due to a shortage of skilled craftsmen following the Black Death of 1348.
The interior contains the traditional
symbols of the four Evangelists above the west door: an angel for
Mathew, a lion for Mark, an ox for Luke and an eagle for John.
The richly-decorated pulpit features marble and alabaster statues of
Jesus, Saint Peter and the four Apostles; there are six sculptured
angels in the sanctuary.
The central panel of the East Window is dedicated to David Cox (1783-1859): a famous English landscape artist who is buried in the churchyard.
T 0121 236 7858 Address: Old Church Road B17 0BB
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St Peter's Website
Saint Saviour's C of E church in Saltley was designed in the Perpendicular Style by R.C. Hussey and built in red sandstone with yellow sandstone dressings. It was consecrated in 1850 and endowed by Charles Adderley who owned most of the land on which Saltley was built.
Saint Saviour's comprises an apsidal chancel, transepts, a 4-bay nave with aisles illuminated by a clerestory and a crenellated south tower with stair turret.
Links: Saltley Address: Saint Saviours Road B8 1HW
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Roman Catholic Churches in Birmingham
The following landmark Roman Catholic churches are located in Birmingham:
Saint Chads RC Cathedral (Top)
Saint Chad's Cathedral stands on Saint Chad's Queensway in the Gun Quarter of central Birmingham; it was designed by Augustus Pugin and built in brick with bath stone dressings in 1839-41 on the site of an earlier Georgian church.
Space was limited since the ground slopes steeply towards the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal and so Pugin compensated for an overly narrow nave by making the ceiling twice as high in the style of a German hallenkirche.
In the absence of horizontal space, the westwerke was squeezed between two slender-broached spires in order to create the illusion of vertical space. The rise on which the cathedral stands was excavated as a crypt.
The south-west spire was added by Pugin's son, Edward Welby, in 1856 and St Edwards Chapel was built by his grandson, Sebastian Pugin Powell, in 1933.
The interior contains numerous treasures, including a Rood cross by Pugin that incorporates a mediaeval Flemish figure of Christ, a 16th century statue of St Chad with a Victorian oak canopy, a 15th century Belgian pulpit, the Immaculate Conception Window by John Hardman Powell, sanctuary windows by William Warrington; carved nave benches by G.B Cox, the shrine of Saint Chad above the High Altar, a mediaeval statue of Our Lady, and 15th century stalls with elaborate misericords.
T 0121 236 2251 Address: St Chad's Queensway B4 6EU
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St Chad's WebsiteOur Lady of the Assumption Maryvale (Top)
Our Lady of the Assumption is a brick Catholic Church in the Maryvale area of Oscott; it was built in 1955 and contains a four metre statue of the Virgin Mary.
Maryvale is a Roman Catholic estate on Oscott Hill in north Birmingham. The core building is a three-storey brick mansion, now grade 2 listed, which was bequeathed to the Catholic church by a local landowner in 1750 and subsequently became a seminary and boy's school to which a neo-classical chapel was added in 1758, a stone colonnade in 1816, and the Gothic Sacred Heart Chapel in 1820.
The seminary and school re-located to New Oscott in 1837 whereupon the buildings were taken over by a convent. An orphanage was added to the estate in 1851, a primary school in 1895 and the Cardinal Wiseman secondary school in 1955.
T 0121 360 7141 Address: 82 Old Oscott Hill B44 9SP
Old Oscott - Our Lady of the Assumption Website
The Birmingham Oratory is located on the Hagley Road (A456) in the Chad Valley area of Edgbaston.
The Congregation of the Oratory was founded by Saint Philip Neri in the 16th century; Cardinal Newman established the English branch in the mid-19th century.
The core buildings of the Birmingham Oratory include a priest's home (circa 1850), St Phillip's Grammar School (circa 1860) and the Church of the Immaculate Conception (1900-09).
The priest's home, once the residence of Cardinal Newman, was built in red-brick with stone dressings in the Italian renaissance style.
The baroque church (1900-09), designed by E.Doran Webb in memory of Cardinal Newman, features a copper dome, shallow transepts and a long nave flanked by a tunnel vault supported by a Corinthian colonnade.
The interior, which is decorated with coloured marbles & polychrome mosaics, contains a memorial to Cardinal Newman; the north-east chapel features the shrine of St Philip Neri and the north transept contains an altar donated by the Chiesa di Sant Andrea della Valle in Rome.
T 0121 454 0496 Address: 141 Hagley Road B16 8UE
Chad Valley - Birmingham Oratory Website
Erdington Abbey is located on the Sutton Road (A5127) in Erdington town centre; the original core building is the church of Saints Thomas and Edmund which was designed by Augustus Pugin in the Gothic Style and built in red sandstone with ashlar dressings by Charles Hansom in 1850.
The church comprises a chancel, nave, transepts and a 36-metre west tower with a broached spire. The interior is faced with limestone.
The church and 4 acres of adjoining land were given to German Benedictine monks in 1876. The monks, who had been exiled by Bismarck, built a two storey abbey with a square buttressed tower next to the church.
The Benedictines left Erdington during the First World War whereupon the church & abbey were taken over by Redemptorists.
The abbey is now part of Highclare Girls School, but the church has survived as a place of worship.
T 0121 373 0143 Address: Sutton Road B23 6QL
Guide Erdington Town - Erdington Abbey Website
St Thomas More's Sheldon (Top)
St Thomas More's stands at the junction of Sheaf Lane and Three Horseshoes Lane in the Sheldon area of south-east Birmingham; it was built in the "wigwam style" in 1970; the central tower and circular nave enable the entire congregation to receive Holy Communion together.
T 0121 743 2367 Address: Three Horseshoes Lane B6 3HU
Non-Conformist Churches in Birmingham
Non-conformism was a term coined in the 17th century to describe Protestant Christians who refuse to conform to the rules and dogma of the established Church of England.
These are some of the non-conformist churches located in Birmingham:
Chester Road Baptist Church (Top)
The Chester Road Baptist Church stands at the junction of Chester Road and Boldmere Road in the Boldmere area of Sutton Coldfield.
The church was built in red brick in the 1890's as the surrounding area became urbanised. Its construction was financed by the sale of Circus Chapel on Bradford Street in Digbeth.
T 0121 350 2779 Address: Chester Road B73 5HU
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Church of the Seventh Day Baptists Greet (Top)
The Church of the Seventh Day Baptists on Warwick Road in Greet is a tin tabernacle of corrugated iron.
Guide Greet - Address: Warwick Road B11 2NU
Christ Church Baptist Chapel (Top)
Christ Church Baptist Chapel is located at the junction of
Victoria Road and Witton Road in Aston. Designed by James Cranstone in the Victorian Gothic Style, it was built in red-brick and terracotta in 1864.The chapel features a landmark conical spire and pinnacles on a square buttressed tower; the interior is lit by roundels and lancets with banded-brick canopies.
The chapel has been preserved as a grade 2 listed building and was recently converted into flats.
Edward Road Baptist Church Balsall Heath (Top)
The Edward Road Baptist Church in Balsall Heath was built in red-brick and terracotta in 1899; it features a stepped central gable flanked by turrets above twin west windows and a Romanesque doorway. The main facade features cut-brick decoration and polychrome brick patterns.
T 0121 256 2565 Address: Edward Road B12 9LY
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Four Oaks Methodist Church (Top)
Four Oaks Methodist Church is located at the junction of Lichfield Road (A5127) and Four Oaks Road (A454) in the Four Oaks area of Sutton Coldfield.
The church was designed by Crouch and Butler in the Norman Style and built in grey sandstone in 1907-08. Its crenellated square tower, west window and Romanesque entrance dominate the Lichfield Road. Both the church & adjoining hall are Grade II listed buildings.
T 0121 323 2211 Address: 155 Lichfield Road B74 2UU
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Hazlewell is a united Church of England and Methodist church on Vicarage Road in Kings Heath.
It is a red brick
building with a central south tower that rises from a steeply-pitched
roof. The church adjoins the Hazelwell Hub: a community, business and
learning centre.
T 0121 444 4469 Address: 316 Vicarage Road B14 7NH
Guide Kings Heath - Hazlewell Hub Website
Villa Road Methodist Church (Top)
The Villa Road Methodist Chapel, which features a short spire and diminutive bell tower, stands at the junction of Villa Road and Soho Road in Lozells.
It should not be confused with the Villa Cross Methodist Chapel (1865) which formerly stood at the junction of Heathfield Road and Villa Road and whose members formed Aston Villa FC in 1874.
Guide Lozells - Lozells & Soho Road Conservation Area
Witton Methodist Church is a red brick building at the corner of Wyrley Road and Birch Road in Witton.
Orthodox Churches in Birmingham
The following Eastern Orthodox churches are located in Birmingham:
Birmingham Greek Orthodox Cathedral (Top)
The Dormition of Mother of God and St Andrew is a Greek Orthodox cathedral on Arthur Place off Summer Hill Terrace in the Jewellery Quarter; it was originally a Catholic Apostolic Church that was built in the Early English Style by J.A.Chatwin in 1873.
The church comprises a polygonal apsidal chancel, a polygonal apsidal baptistry, a south chapel and an 8-bay nave with low aisles, brick buttresses and tall clerestory windows; a north-west cloister, circular chapter house, vestry & porch were added in 1900.
The Catholic Apostolic was a popular Victorian sect led by contemporary self-proclaimed apostles but it was in terminal decline by the 1930's and so this church was converted into a Greek Orthodox cathedral dedicated to Protokletos (Saint Andrew) and the Dormition (death) of Theotokos (Mother of God).
T 0121 454 1832 Address: 8 Arthur Place B1 3DA
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Church of Holy Trinity & Saint Luke (Top)
The Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity and Saint Luke is located on Park Approach in Witton.
It was opened by the Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira & Great Britain under the leadership of the Patriarch of Constantinople in 1995.
The church holds an annual Orthodox Youth Conference and celebrates the Feast Day of Saint Luke on 18 October.
The walls of the inner sanctuary (Holy of Holies) are decorated with Byzantine-style frescoes.
T 0121 327 4650 Address: Park Approach B23 7SJ
Guide Witton - Holy Trinity & Saint Luke Website
The Serbian Orthodox Church of Saint Lazar's (1968) stands on Cob Lane in Bournville.
It was built in the style of a 14th century Byzantine church by the Bournville Village Trust for the Serbian community which became established in Bournville after Dame Elizabeth Cadbury sponsored Serbian refugee children during the First World War.
The church is dedicated to Prince Lazar: a warrior saint who fell at the Battle of Kosovo (1389) in defence of Serbia against the Ottoman Empire.
The interior contains some splendid traditional Byzantine frescoes, including images of the Christ Pantocrator in the central dome and the Virgin Mary in the hemi-dome of the apse.
The walls are decorated with apostles, patriarchs, priestly and warrior saints and scenes from twelve Christian feasts; a cultural centre is attached.
T 0121 458 5273 Address: 131 Cobb Lane B30 1QE
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