A Comprehensive List of Birmingham Parishes and Chapels

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Prior to 1715, Birmingham had only one ancient parish. Later, four additional parishes were built. The following list of churches comprise a comprehensive list of the Greater Birmingham parishes and churches prior to the year 1851. These include:


 * Birmingham All Saints 1833-1904

Birmingham Bishop Ryder's church 1838

Birmingham Christ-church 1813


 * Birmingham St. Bartholomew 1749
 * Birmingham St. George 1822

Birmingham St Jude 1846

Birmingham St. Luke church 1842

Birmingham St. Mark church 1841


 * Birmingham St. Martin 1554

Birmingham St Mary Whittall St 1793

Birmingham St. Mary 1774

Birmingham St Mary - 1856

Birmingham St Nicolas - 1868

Birmingham St. Paul 1779

Birmingham St. Peter 1842


 * Birmingham St. Philip 1715

Birmingham St. Stephen church 1844

Birmingham St. Thomas 1829

Birmingham St Thomas and Immanuel's Church - 1830


 * = a parish church (see Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of England &amp; Wales, 1848 edition)

The following townships and hamlets are also considered as part of Greater Birmingham. Each one is listed here because each one possesses one or more chapels called chapelries and thus ought to be considered as part of "Birmingham" since they, technically speaking, lie within Birmingham's civil parish boundaries:

Blackwell - 1856

Bordesley Holy Trinity Bradford St - 1823 Bordesley St Andrew St Andrew St - 1846 Bordesley St Benedict - 1898

Bordesley St Oswald (of Worcester) St Oswalds Road - 1889

Bordesley St Patrick - 1897 Bordesley Trinity Camp Hill - Deritend St John the Evangelist - 1699

Deritend Christ Church - Deritend St Basil - 1886 Deritend St Gabriel Barn St - 1869 Deritend St John formerly St Basil Mill Heath Lane/High St - 1886

Duddeston St James the Less - 1810

Duddeston St Matthew - 1840

Hockley All Saints - 1833

Hockley St George - 1823

Ladywood St Barnabas - 1860

Ladywood St John Darnley Rd - 1854

Newton-Row St Stephen - 1844

. From: 'Birkenshaw - Birmingham', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 255-263. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50802 Date accessed: 23 November 2009.