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 plain interwar basilican design by Sandy & Norris, with a simple, dignified interior, but not of special... Read More
An L-shaped complex of two former Cotswold barns dating from the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, used... Read More
A Gothic Revival suburban parish church by Canon A. J. C. Scoles, completed in stages over thirty years. A shrine to... Read More
A small, aisleless Gothic Revival church of the 1860s by a distinguished Catholic architect. It occupies a prominent... Read More
A small, plain, stone-built mid-nineteenth century chapel, built for the Primitive Methodists and acquired for Catholic... Read More
One of A. W. N. Pugin’s greatest achievements and the pinnacle of his work for the sixteenth Earl of Shrewsbury. The... Read More
A small and functional polygonal building of 1980 with exposed laminated trusses. Mass was first said here from... Read More
A notable neoclassical design of the 1830s by J. M. Derick, in marked contrast to the architect’s slightly later... Read More
A late 1950s multi-purpose building, later substantially extended. While not of architectural or historical... Read More
One of the more recent churches in the diocese, carefully designed on a compact scale and with interesting visual... Read More
A church of almost cathedral proportions, built at the beginning of the Second World War from designs by G. B. Cox. The... Read More
St Mary’s Abbey occupies a building of considerable architectural interest as an example of early nineteenth century... Read More
