C of E
Yardley Wood – Christ Church School Road ( O. S GR SP 093796 )
Consecrated in 1849. A parish was assigned from St Edburgha’s, Yardley, and St Nicholas’s, Kings Norton in 1849. Parts of the parish were taken to form parts of the parishes of St Agnes, Moseley 1914. Holy Cross, Billesley Common 1937 and Immanuel, Highters Heath 1938. In 1952 parts of the parishes of Christ Church and Holy Cross were interchanged. St Joseph Mission Church, Alcester Lanes End was licensed for public worship from 1920 until the Second World War; St Mary the Virgin’s Billesley, 1923-26.
Registers at Birmingham Central Library – Archives department
Baptisms 1840-1961
Marriages 1849-1953
Burials 1849-1949
Non Conformist
Baptist – Yardley Wood Road Yardley Wood
Chapel was opened in 1935 and replaced an earlier chapel in Slade Lane Yardley Wood.
Brethren – Glastonbury Road Yardley Wood
Gospel hall was registered for public worship from 1931 to 1948. It was said to be a meeting at this address in 1957.
Full Gospel Churches – Millpool Hall Highters Heath Alcester Road South
Church was registered for public worship in 1947.
Full Gospel Churches – Priory Road Yardley Wood
Was registered for public worship in 1945.
Methodists – Sladepool Farm Road Highters Heath
Chapel began in 1939 as a wooden school-hall established by Moseley Road Circuit to serve the growing Maypole estate. The hall was also used by the Birmingham Education Committee as a day school, and at the beginning of 1949 a separate temporary chapel was opened.
Salvation Army – Happy Valley Yardley Wood
Hall was registered for public worship in 1933.
Roman Catholic
Our Lady of Fatima Bells Lane (O S GR SP0678 )
The mission was established in 1951 and served from St Dunstan’s Kings Heath.
