The Diocese of Birmingham was created in 1850, becoming an Archdiocese in 1911. It is the Metropolitan diocese in the Province of Birmingham. The cathedral is in Birmingham and is dedicated to St Chad. The Archdiocese covers parts or all of the counties/administrative areas of Oxfordshire and Berkshire (north of the River Thames), Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands and Worcestershire. It has 224 parishes (as of 2015), some with more than one church; 263 churches were visited for Taking Stock.
The cathedral church of the Archdiocese of Birmingham, and a major early work by A. W. N. Pugin. The church was built... Read More
A stripped Romanesque design of the early 1960s by E. Bower Norris, its square tower in particular giving it some... Read More
An architecturally modest chapel of some historical interest, located at the heart of the medieval town and... Read More
A fine and substantial interwar Gothic design by G. B. Cox, built in two stages, and intended from the outset as a war... Read More
A modest Gothic church of the 1880s by Canon A. J. C. Scoles, built for the Benedictines on land said to have been part... Read More
A plain, brick church of the early 1960s, built on a traditional longitudinal plan. The prominent campanile forms a... Read More
The church is a key part of a major scheme by Pugin for his greatest patron, the Sixteenth Earl of Shrewsbury, and... Read More
A red-brick former school building dating from the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, converted to church use... Read More
A small church of the 1990s, flexible in character and modest in architectural aspiration, its most notable feature... Read More
A delightful and highly individual piece of early nineteenth-century church-building, designed by the Rev. James Egan.... Read More
A strong design from the time of the Second Vatican Council, with good furnishings by Hardman Studios. Had the intended... Read More
A notable Italo-Byzantine design by G. B. Cox, influenced no doubt by Westminster Cathedral, and lavishly fitted out... Read More
