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 handsome and substantial building largely of 1901-2 by Edmund Kirby, but with a late nineteenth century chancel which... Read More
An ambitious and self-confident Gothic design by G. B. Cox, erected between the wars as a replica of the Marian shrine... Read More
An interwar Arts and Crafts Gothic brick church by A. S. G. Butler, the main interest of which lies in the furnishings... Read More
An attractive stone-built group of church, presbytery and former school building in a pastoral edge-of-village setting.... Read More
A small building built by a member of the Catholic Amherst family and an early work by A. W. Pugin, one of the... Read More
A large red brick town church of the 1990s, a curious hybrid design combining Neo-Romanesque, Scots Baronial and... Read More
A red-brick church of the 1850s in a Gothic Revival style drawing upon motifs of c.1300. It is architecturally plain,... Read More
A large, buff-brick church built to serve a post-war housing estate on the western outskirts of Kidderminster. Although... Read More
A plain post-war church built by the Wakefield firm Lanner Ltd using their characteristic laminated timber arches.The... Read More
An attractive small late nineteenth-century brick church in Perpendicular Gothic style, by a local architect of... Read More
A functional but carefully-detailed design of the 1970s, incorporating furnishings from the predecessor church and... Read More
A brick church of the early 1980s, not of special architectural or historical interest but making a good contribution... Read More
