St Barnabas' Church, Balsall Heath

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

St Barnabas' Church
52°27′16.4″N 1°52′37.4″W
LocationBalsall Heath, Birmingham
CountryEngland
DenominationChurch of England
ChurchmanshipAnglo-Catholic
Websitewww.saintagathas.org.uk
History
DedicationSt Barnabas
Consecrated1904 (1904)
Architecture
Architect(s)Thomas F. Proud
Groundbreaking1897
Completed1904
Administration
ParishSt Agatha Sparkbrook and St Barnabas Balsall Heath
DeaneryCentral Birmingham
ArchdeaconryBirmingham
DioceseAnglican Diocese of Birmingham
Clergy
Bishop(s)The Rt Revd Jonathan Goodall (AEO)

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 Ebbsfleet (currently Jonathan Goodall).[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.
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