Catalogue description Records of the ecclesiastical parish of St. Thomas in the Moors, Balsall Heath

Church of England, Balsall Heath, St Thomas in the Moors' Parish, Birmingham

Acc- and 93/92

Deposited by the Vicar and PCC of St. Mary and St. Ambrose, Edgbaston, February 1993

St. Thomas in the Moors Church, Cox St West, Balsall Heath was built in the Gothic style and designed by Bateman and Corser. It was consecrated in 1883. A parish was assigned out of St. Paul's, Balsall Heath the following year (1884). The living which was a vicarage since 1884 was in the gift of public trustees. Part of the parish was taken to form part of the parish of St. Patrick, Bordesley in 1900. From 1923 until the Second World War a parochial hall in Clevedon St was licensed for public worship. In May 1955 the parish of St. Thomas in the Moors, Balsall Heath was united with that of St. Mary and St. Ambrose and the church ceased to be used as a place of worship

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