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.
A large post-Vatican II church by Williams & Winkley, illustrating the 1970s vogue for multi-purpose church... Read More
A large modern church built after the Second Vatican Council on a square plan. It has an impressive interior with good... Read More
A small plain post-war church with some later additions. The parish was founded in 1950 when a resident priest... Read More
A small octagonal church built in 1979, with a raised, side-lit sanctuary. Before the establishment of the parish in... Read More
A striking church with a fan-shaped plan designed in response to the post-Vatican II liturgical changes. The aluminium... Read More
A large, simple church by Desmond Williams & Associates, reflecting the 1970s vogue for multipurpose functional... Read More
A 1980s brick-built church with hall attached, built on a modest budget and not of special heritage interest.In 1926... Read More
A modest red brick Gothic church in a rural setting, attached to an earlier (seventeenth century) house. The church is... Read More
A steel-framed and brick church of the 1970s on a hexagonal plan, with a light and welcoming interior.The first Mass... Read More
A small Puginian Gothic church commissioned from William W. Wardell by John Davey of a local Catholic family, who also... Read More
A simple Gothic brick church of the 1930s, enlarged and liturgically reorientated in the 1970s. The reordered interior... Read More
An impressive Early Christian basilican-style brick church dating from the early interwar years, made exceptional by... Read More
