St Barnabas' Church, Balsall Heath

Church in Birmingham, England
52°27′16.4″N 1°52′37.4″W / 52.454556°N 1.877056°W / 52.454556; -1.877056LocationBalsall Heath, BirminghamCountryEnglandDenominationChurch of EnglandChurchmanshipAnglo-CatholicWebsitewww.saintagathas.org.ukHistoryDedicationSt BarnabasConsecrated1904 (1904)ArchitectureArchitect(s)Thomas F. ProudGroundbreaking1897Completed1904AdministrationDioceseAnglican Diocese of BirminghamArchdeaconryBirminghamDeaneryCentral BirminghamParishSt Agatha Sparkbrook and St Barnabas Balsall HeathClergyBishop(s)Rt Revd Paul Thomas SSC (AEO)

St Barnabas' is a parish church in the Church of England in Balsall Heath, Birmingham, England.[1]

History

The church was built between 1898 and 1904 to designs of the architect Thomas Proud, and was consecrated by Charles Gore, Bishop of Worcester on Saturday 10 June 1904.[2] It acquired its own parish in 1905 with land taken from St Paul's Church, Balsall Heath.[3]

A fire in 1970 resulted in an extensive rebuild. In 1990 the church was merged with St Agatha's Church, Sparkbrook to form a united parish. The parish stands in the Anglo-Catholic tradition of the Church of England: as it rejects the ordination of women, it receives alternative episcopal oversight from the Bishop of Oswestry (currently Paul Thomas).[4]

References

  1. ^ The Buildings of England. Warwickshire. Nikolaus Pevsner. Penguin Books. ISBN 0140710310 p.153
  2. ^ "Churches". Coventry Herald. Coventry. 17 June 1904.
  3. ^ "See of Birmingham". Lichfield Mercury. Lichfield. 14 July 1905.
  4. ^ "St Agatha's Church Sparkbrook; St Barnabas' Church Balsall Heath: PARISH PROFILE" (pdf). Diocese of Birmingham. September 2020. Retrieved 7 November 2020.