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 former tithe barn sympathetically converted for use as a church in the 1960s, with a recent porch extension. It forms... Read More
An inventive small modern church by Brian Rush, with sheer curving brick walls for external effect and an interior made... Read More
A small Edwardian red brick Early English Gothic design, and a modest example of the work of a well-known firm of... Read More
A plain brick 1970s design in a suburban location, distinguished by its raised tower over the sanctuary.The mission... Read More
A plain brick structure built in the late 1950s on a longitudinal plan, designed without aisles to maximise the... Read More
One of Jennings, Homer & Lynch’s more notable church designs in the diocese, with a fan-shaped plan designed to... Read More
A highly important church in the history of Midlands Catholicism. It adjoins the early eighteenth century Giffard... Read More
A modern brick church of 1991 arranged on standard post-Vatican II lines. The exterior is unexceptional but the... Read More
A modern brick church with a broad, fan-shaped plan on post-Vatican II lines.The first church was built on Stafford... Read More
A modern design, externally plain, but with a large square open worship space oversailed by a dramatic suspended... Read More
A striking interwar brick design by Sandy & Norris, with a showpiece frontage fusing modern Romanesque and Art Deco... Read More
A church of the late 1960s, of brick and concrete construction, with an angular appearance and a large, open worship... Read More
