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.
Oxford’s oldest surviving Catholic church of modern times, built by the Jesuits in the 1870s and replacing a small... Read More
A small Arts and Crafts chapel (designed as a hall to serve a future church) by Ernest Newton, one of his few... Read More
Although architecturally unremarkable, this is a building of considerable significance in the development of the... Read More
A large and conspicuous late Gothic Revival church built for French Benedictine nuns from design by Peter Paul Pugin... Read More
A late Georgian sandstone design, built not long after Catholic Emancipation, from designs by the Gothic Revival... Read More
A nationally important church with a stunning west steeple - the only part not by a member of the Pugin family. The... Read More
A plain 1959 longitudinal brick church with a tall tower, radically changed in 1992-3 into a square space dominated by... Read More
The central core of a concrete framed cruciform church built in 1965-6 and altered to its present form in 1978-9.... Read More
An important example of the work of Charles Hansom, with many original fixtures and good stained glass by Hardman,... Read More
One of the oldest churches in the diocese, being a Gothic design of the 1820s, in turn replacing a chapel of 1789. The... Read More
A modestly-sized steel-framed and brick building of the 1930s, originally planned to serve as a hall for a church which... Read More
A former workhouse chapel in lancet Gothic style, converted to Catholic use in 1979. The mid-nineteenth century chapel... Read More
