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Small Heath – All Saints Cooksey Rd ( O. S GR SP 09 85 )
Erected in 1875 and consecrated in 1883. The church was destroyed by enemy action during the Second World War. A parish was assigned out of Holy Trinity, Bordesley in 1875, the living in the gift of private trustees was a titular vicarage from 1890. The parish out of which the parish of St Aidan, Small Heath and part of the parish of St Gregory, Small Heath 1924, had been formed and from which part had been transferred to St Aidian’s, Small Heath in 1907, was declared an ecclesiastical reorganisation area in 1946. In 1949 the benefice was permanently united so that of St Aidian, Small Heath to form a new benefice to be called St Aidian. St Aidian originated as a mission church of the Good Shepherd, opened in 1900 was in 1916 consecrated as St Gregory the Great
Registers at Birmingham Central Library – Archives department
Baptisms 1875-1947
Marriages 1883-1949
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Small Heath – Emmanuel Green Lane ( O. S GR SP 09 86 )
Registers at Birmingham Central Library – Archives department
Baptisms 1892-1894
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Small Heath – St Aidian Herbert Road ( O. S GR SP 092858 )
Originated as a iron church first licensed as a mission church of All Saint’s, Small Heath. In 1891.A permanent church built 1894 , consecrated 1896. A parish was assigned out of All Saint’s, Small Heath in 1897 of which part was transferred back again in 1907. In 1946 the parish, together with those of All Saint’s, Small heath, St Gregory , Small heath and St Oswald, Small heath was declared part of an ecclesiastical reorganisation area. In 1949 the benefices of St Aidan and All Saints were united to form the new benefice of St Aidan. A mission church in Arthur Street and Dixon Road has been licensed for public worship since 1902.
Registers at Birmingham Central Library – Archives department
Baptisms 1891-1968
Marriages 1897-1968
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Small Heath – St Gregory the Great Coventry Road / Oldknow Road ( O. S GR SP 195855 )
Originated as an iron church of the Good Shepherd and opened in 1900 as a mission of All Saint’s, Small Heath. A permanent church was begun in 1902 dedicated to St Gregory the Great in 1912, and consecrated in 1916. In 1916 a Conventional District was attached to it, and in 1924 a parish was assigned out of All Saint’s, Small Heath, and St Oswald’s, Bordesley. The parish was declared part of an ecclesiastical re-organisation area in 1946.
Registers at Birmingham Central Library – Archives department
Baptisms 1909-1994
Marriages 1924-1992
Non Conformist
Baptist – Coventry Road Small Heath
Chapel was opened in 1891 as a branch chapel of Victoria Street Bordesley Green Renovated in 1937. Coventry Road Small Heath had consistently maintained it’s positioned as one of the leading Birmingham chapels. Daughter churches were founded at Alexander Road Acocks Green 1903, and Rowlands Road Yardley 1939. In 1892 Coventry Road Small Heath also had charge of a mission in Greenway Street Bordesley and another in Church Road, Saltley.
Brethren – Green Lane Small Heath
Gospel hall, is mentioned in 1878. In a deed of 1886 it was described as “until recently” a Wesleyan Methodist chapel.
Christadelphians – Heather Road Small Heath
Hall was opened in 1939. The ecclesia was founded in 1924, and was associated with the Temperance Hall group. In 1939 it was meeting in the Co-operative Society meeting room, Coventry Road.
Congregationalists and Independents – Coventry Road Small Heath
Was built in 1868. The church originated as a mission founded from Palmer Street Bordesley in 1858.
Registers at Birmingham Central Library – Archives department Baptisms 1886 – 1979
Marriage 1866 – 1966
Congregationalists and Independents – Waverley Road Small Heath
Chapel was in use in 1892. It was mentioned in the Birmingham Red Book for 1892 and 1893 only.
Registers at Birmingham Central Library – Archives department Indicates records
Elim Church – Muntz Street Small Heath
Elim church, formerly a Methodist chapel and a full gospel church was opened in 1954.
Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches – St Andrew’s Street Small Heath
Dr Crabbe Memorial Mission was established in the former Railway Mission hall in St Andrew’s Street Small Heath in 1948. the mission appears to have been founded about in 1918 in honour of the former superintendent of the Birmingham medical Mission, and occupied the Dr Crabbe Memorial hall, Bordesley Street from1925 to 1947. Immediately prior to the move to St Andrew’s Street, Small Heath it met at a hall in Sandy Lane, belonging to the Presbyterian Church.
Methodists – Coventry Road Small Heath
Chapel was opened by the Wesleyans in 1876 to replace Green Lane chapel.
Registers at Birmingham Central Library – Archives department Baptism 1868 – 1947
Marriage 1899 – 1961
Methodists – Green Lane Small Heath
The chapel was built by the Wesleyans in 1841. It was replaced by Coventry Road, Small Heath chapel in 1876, and was sold in 1879. It appears subsequently to have been used by a Brethren’s meeting.
Methodists – Muntz Street Small Heath
Chapel was opened by the United Methodists Free Churches in 1870.The church originatedin1861 in a secession from a Congregational Church, and worshipped at first in a small room over a stable in Grange Road. In 1944 the chapel was sold, and later became successively a Full Gospel and an Elim Church.
Registers at Birmingham Central Library – Archives department Marriage 1926 – 1941
Methodists – Prince Albert Street Small Heath
Chapel was registered for public worship by the bible Christians in 1903.
Registers at Birmingham Central Library – Archives department Baptisms 1912 –1961
Marriages 1927 – 1960
Methodists – Yardley Green Road Small Heath
St Pauls Church was opened by the Primitive Methodists in 1922, and was preceded by another chapel registered for public worship in 1894.
Registers at Birmingham Central Library – Archives department Baptism 1938 – 1960
Presbyterian Meeting Houses and Unitarian and Free Christian Churches – Waverly Road Small Heath
Chapel was completed in 1898. The congregation originated a mission of the Midland Christian Union, meeting in 1893 at Little Green Lane Board School, and from the following year in Somerville Road.
Salvation Army – Green Lane Small Heath
Hall was in use in 1892.
Salvation Army – Jenkins Street Small Heath
Hall was registered for public worship in 1931.
Seventh Day Adventists – Manse Road Advent Hall Small Heath
A meeting room was registered for public worship from 1941 to 1954, and was a meeting place of the South Birmingham Church founded in 1901. The congregation joined that of Camp Hill.
Seventh Day Adventists – Waverley Road Small Heath
Roman Catholic
Holy Family 1901 Coventry Road (O.S GR SP0985)
The Mission was founded in 1901 from St Ann’s and Mass was said in a workshop in Green Lane until 1903 when a chapel in the upper floor of a new school was opened. The permanent church opened in 1928.
