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.
An individual and idiosyncratic church of 1833-4, designed by the mission priest, who had created a similarly... Read More
A large aisled red brick church on a cruciform plan with a massive west tower, mainly of 1935-6 but with elements of... Read More
A successful combination of an octagonal church with a longitudinal hall and ancillary facilities on a restricted site,... Read More
A brick-built church of the mid-1960s, of modern construction. It is built to a traditional longitudinal plan, but was... Read More
An important design by E. W. Pugin, built in 1853-4 for an order of Benedictine nuns that came to Oulton from Ghent,... Read More
A post-war building built as a dual-purpose church and hall to serve to the Blackbird Leys estate. The intended... Read More
A large chapel in a late Gothic style, and a late work by E. Doran Webb. It forms part of a Dominican Priory in the... Read More
A large post-war church designed by the Irish architect Patrick Sheahan. The church retains most of its original... Read More
A small suburban church, built in two stages in the 1930s and 1950s. In the 1970s a dalle de verre window was installed... Read More
A large neo-Romanesque church by the architect-priest Fr Benedict Williamson. Built for the Jesuits, it is now a parish... Read More
A large modern church built a few years after the Second Vatican Council. The folded roof and its unusual clerestory of... Read More
A large church of a relatively conventional design for 1959–60, built as a dual-purpose church and hall, with a wide,... Read More
