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 functional design of 1960, built to a limited budget and not of heritage significance.The church was built to serve... Read More
The Throckmorton family has been at Coughton Court since the fifteenth century, and the house was a Catholic recusant... Read More
A plain post-war design with the character of a dual-purpose church-hall. The parish was erected in 1956 and the... Read More
A functional portal framed design, built in the 1950s as a dual-purpose church-hall; the projected larger church never... Read More
A post-Vatican II centrally-planned church, built by Lanner of Wakefield to one of their standard designs. The... Read More
A large early 1970s church of traditional planform. It has a fine series of later stained glass windows by Abbey... Read More
A large Romanesque Revival church built in 1923-4 as a war memorial and extended in 1938-9 by E. Bower Norris. War... Read More
An early church by G. B. Cox in a nicely-detailed Arts and Crafts Gothic style. Following wartime bomb damage, the east... Read More
A small urban church in the Early English Gothic Revival style, built to serve the second oldest mission in Coventry.... Read More
A large church built on a tapering cruciform plan shortly after the Second Vatican Council by the Dublin architects... Read More
A small plain church of the late 1970s, built as a parish initiative, and notable mainly for its fine stained glass and... Read More
The oldest Catholic church in Coventry, and the successor parish to the mission in existence by 1707. Built for the... Read More
