The other particulars relating to the Churches in the Borough will be found in the following alphabetical list.
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE CHURCHES IN THE BOROUGH OF BIRMINGHAM.
A means Aston Parish, B Birmingham Parish, E Edgbaston Parish, R Rectory, and V Vicarage.
| Parish of | Benefice | Incumbent and Degree, and Year of admission. | Patron. | Net Value £ | Population last census. | Total Church accommodation. | Free Sittings for poor. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | All Saints | R | P. E. Wilson, M.A. | 1882 | Trustees | 238 | 28656 | 715 | 300 |
| A | All Saints, Small Heath | V | G. F. B. Cross, M.A. | 1875 | Trustees | 150 | 9123 | 720 | all |
| B | Bishop Ryder | V | J. Phelps Gardiner, D.D. | 1875 | Trustees | 300 | 7737 | 840 | 200 |
| B | Christ Church | V | E. R. Mason, M.A. | 1881 | The Bishop | 330 | 4158 | 1600 | 1100 |
| A | Christ Church, Sparkbrook | V | G. Tonge, M.A. | 1867 | Trustees | 400 | 12730 | 900 | 450 |
| B | Christ Church, Summerfield | V | G. S. Walker, M.A. | 1885 | The Bishop | — | — | 800 | 450 |
| E | Edgbaston Old Church | V | Cresswell Strange, M.A. | 1885 | Lord Calthorpe | 542 | 10024 | 673 | 139 |
| A | Holy Trinity, Bordesley | V | A. H. Watts | 1883 | Trustees | 330 | 12563 | 1500 | 900 |
| B | Immanuel | V | R. Bren, M.A. | 1885 | Trustees | 297 | 9011 | 805 | 605 |
| A | St. Alban the Martyr, Dist. | J. S. Pollock, M.A. | 1871 | Trustees | 150 | 12723 | 1000 | all | |
| E | St. Ambrose | ||||||||
| A | St. Andrew, Bordesley | V | J. Williamson, M.A. | 1876 | Bishop and Trustees alt. | 320 | 10000 | 800 | 200 |
| A | St. Anne | V | T. J. Haworth, M.A. | 1873 | The Bishop | 300 | 5302 | 810 | 400 |
| B | St. Asaph | V | R. Fletcher, M.A. | 1879 | Trustees | 360 | 10800 | 1000 | 500 |
| E | St. Augustine | Ch. | J. C. Blissard, M.A. | 1868 | The Bishop | 500 | — | 650 | 50 |
| B | St. Barnabas | V | Percy Waller | 1881 | Trustees | 385 | 7250 | 1050 | 650 |
| B | St. Bartholomew | V | James Eagles, M.A. | 1851 | Rector of St. Martin | 300 | 6500 | 1800 | 800 |
| A | St. Catherine | V | T. H. Nock, M.A. | 1879 | Trustees | — | 7149 | 750 | 400 |
| A | St. Clement | V | J. T. Butlin, B.A. | 1879 | Vicar of St. Matthew | 310 | 9500 | 850 | 500 |
| B | St. Cuthbert | V | W. H. Tarleton, M.A. | 1872 | Trustees | 250 | 8002 | 720 | 596 |
| B | St. David | V | H. Boyden, B.A. | 1866 | Trustees | 315 | 10382 | 985 | 733 |
| B | St. Gabriel | V | W. H. Cariss, M.A. | 1884 | The Bishop | 350 | 5700 | 650 | all |
| B | St. George | R | J. G. Dixon, M.A. | 1875 | Trustees | 400 | 16065 | 2150 | 1450 |
| E | St. George | V | C. M. Owen, M.A. | 1883 | Lord Calthorpe | 450 | 7000 | 1350 | 450 |
| A | St. James, Ashted | V | J. Orr, M.A. | 1885 | Trustees | 300 | 16000 | 1350 | 450 |
| E | St. James | V | W. E. Ivens, M.A. | 1885 | Lord Calthorpe | 250 | 6231 | 900 | 225 |
| A | St. John, Deritend | Ch. | W. C. Badger, M.A. | 1870 | Parishioners of Deritend and Bordesley | 300 | 10448 | 890 | 150 |
| B | St. John, Ladywood | V | J. L. Porter, M.A. | 1869 | Rector of St. Martin | — | 14176 | — | 1050 |
| B | St. Jude | V | T. G. Watton, M.A. | 1873 | The Bishop | 350 | 7000 | 1000 | 600 |
| A | St. Lawrence | V | J. F. M. Whish, B.A. | 1879 | The Bishop | 320 | 5778 | 750 | 400 |
| B | St. Luke | V | W. B. Wilkinson, M.A. | 1875 | Trustees | 300 | 10486 | 800 | 300 |
| B | ST. MARTIN | R | W. Wilkinson, D.D. | 1866 | Trustees | 1048 | 17405 | 2200 | 140 |
| B | St. Margaret P. C. | H. A. Nash | 1875 | The Bishop | 300 | 6653 | 800 | all | |
| B | St. Mark | V | R. L. G. Pidcock, M.A. | 1877 | The Bishop and Trustees | 350 | 16000 | 1000 | 400 |
| B | St. Mary | V | H. Foster Pegg, M.A. | 1866 | Trustees | 275 | 5657 | 1600 | 350 |
| A | St. Matthew, Duddeston | V | J. Byrchmore | 1879 | Trustees | 300 | 8216 | 1504 | 679 |
| B | St. Matthias | V | J. S. Davies, M.A. | 1886 | Trustees | 300 | 10000 | 1000 | all |
| B | St. Nicolas | V | W. H. Connor, M.A. | 1876 | The Bishop | 300 | 5220 | 566 | all |
| B | St. Paul | V | R. B. Burges, M.A. | 1867 | Trustees | 300 | 15100 | 1200 | 600 |
| B | St. Peter | V | R. Dell, M.A. | 1870 | The Bishop | 310 | 2500 | 1500 | all |
| B | St. Philip | R | H. B. Bowlby, M.A. | 1875 | The Bishop | 949 | 2885 | 1750 | 560 |
| B | St. Saviour | V | M. Parker | 1874 | Trustees | 380 | 5000 | 730 | all |
| B | St. Stephen | V | P. Reynolds, LL.B. | 1854 | The Bishop | 250 | 12560 | 1150 | 700 |
| B | St. Thomas | R | T. D. Halsted, M.A. | 1870 | Trustees | 650 | 11000 | 2100 | 1500 |
NON-CONFORMISTS.[37]
The earliest Nonconformist place of worship, of which any record remains, was “The Old Meeting,” which, with its graveyard, has so recently as the year 1882 been removed for the enlargement of the railway station in New Street.
As old Birmingham was not a corporate town it did not come within the provisions of The Five-Mile Act (A.D. 1665), and was naturally the resort of persecuted Nonconformists from the neighbouring boroughs. On the first Declaration of Indulgence put forth by Charles the Second in 1672, rooms were licensed for public worship, and in 1687 eleven dissenters bought a plot of land in what was then called Philip Street, and built a meeting house, finished in 1689, the year of the passing of The Toleration Act. As the total cost of land and building was only £220, it could not have accommodated many hearers, and we find that another meeting house, called the “Lower Meeting House,” was built in Deritend in a yard which was until lately called “Meeting House Yard,” now taken into the continuation of Milk Street into Deritend. This second chapel was injured in the Sacheverell Riots in 1715, and afterwards the congregation removed, in 1732, to what was formerly the “New Meeting,” in Moor Street, where they remained until the last day of the year 1861.
The worshippers at both these two original meeting houses called themselves, and were called “Presbyterians,” used as the antithesis to “Episcopalian,” although they were really “Independent” in their form of church government. In theology both congregations were at first Calvinistic, but Mr. Howell, the sixth in succession of the ministers of the Old Meeting, having become an avowed Arian, the more orthodox minority withdrew in the year 1747, and founded the church in Carr’s Lane—(see “Congregationalists.”) It is creditable to the good feeling of the separatists that none of them sold their shares in the “Old Meeting” and one of them was re-appointed a trustee thirty years afterwards. From Arianism the congregations of both the Old and New Meetings gradually became Unitarian and are henceforth treated under that title.
Unitarians.—The Old Meeting House, built in 1689, was burned in the riots of 1791, and afterwards rebuilt. It had attached a burial ground which was used by both the congregations of the Old and New Meetings, and in which were interred the remains of many of the foremost men in the public life of Birmingham for two centuries.[38] As before stated the meeting house and ground were sold to the London and North Western Railway Company in 1882, and the remains of the dead were transferred to a separate piece of ground in the Borough Cemetery at Witton, and the Congregation have built a new
Old Meeting Church, in the Bristol Road, which was opened in 1885.