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 building of major significance in the diocese, and nationally, illustrating one architect’s response, highly... Read More
A good, fairly late example of the work of the Birmingham architect G. B. Cox, in stripped Romanesque style, its broad... Read More
A simple post-Vatican II church by Brian A. Rush, using modern materials to provide a spacious, flexible interior to... Read More
A former Unitarian chapel of 1802, in Catholic use since 1862, unsympathetically remodelled in the 1970s and again... Read More
A cemetery chapel of 1850 and church and presbytery of 1871-2, by A. W. and E. W. Pugin respectively. The church was... Read More
A stripped Italian Romanesque interwar design by E. Bower Norris, with a strong external design and a carefully... Read More
Maryvale is very significant in the history of the Catholic Church in England. It was a mission in the seventeenth... Read More
A stately and well-detailed interwar essay in Early Gothic by G. B. Cox, echoing in some respects his earlier church at... Read More
A modest church dating originally from the late 1930s, significantly altered and enlarged in the 1960s, with an... Read More
An interwar brick church of traditional form but with modernistic detailing, built to serve a new and expanding... Read More
A large functional church and presbytery of the early 1970s. The church was designed as a flexible worship space to... Read More
A modest post-war suburban church, using modern materials to provide a spacious, flexible interior. This parish... Read More
