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Pershore Road, BIRMINGHAM, B5 7PF

On Pershore Road (A441).

This green wooden building was originally St Agnes Church, Wake Green. Wake Green no longer exists, having been absorbed into the expanding "villages" of Moseley and Kings Heath in the early 1900s. Whilst a new St Agnes’ parish church was being built in Moseley the relevant authorities decided that this clapboard building was surplus to requirements. It was felt however, to be just what was needed here and as a result it was dismantled, transported and re-erected here near the junction of Pershore Road and Raglan Road. Space was left on its north-east side until a more permanent church could be built. A certain Lord Calthorpe eventually donated this corner site and the now adjacent Church of SS Mary & Ambrose (glimpsed beyond) was built in 1897-98 to a design by J.A. Chatwin of Birmingham. The cost of the red-brick and terracotta structure, i.e. £6000, was paid for by the Misses Stokes of The Hawthorns, Edgbaston. Thereafter the wooden clapboard building became the church hall for the Church of SS Mary & St Ambrose. The new parish, carved out of Edgbaston, was assigned in 1903. This Grade II-listed red-brick and terracotta church displaced St Bartholomew's mission church in Lower Edgbaston, a facility that had been built in 1885 to meet the needs of an expanding population.

This church hall stands on the busy Pershore Road next to the Parish Church of the same name. Edgbaston Cricket ground is less than half a mile away.

Grade II listed. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-217497-church-of-st-mary-and-st-ambrose-birming

The green wooden building was originally St Agnes Church, Wake Green. Wake Green no longer exists, having been absorbed into the expanding "villages" of Moseley and Kings Heath in the early 1900s. Whilst a new St Agnes’ parish church was being built in Moseley the relevant authorities decided that this clapboard building was surplus to requirements. It was felt however, to be just what was needed here and as a result it was dismantled, transported and re-erected here near the junction of Pershore Road and Raglan Road. Space was left on its north-east side until a more permanent church could be built. A certain Lord Calthorpe eventually donated this corner site and the now adjacent Church of SS Mary & Ambrose was built in 1897-98 to a design by J.A. Chatwin of Birmingham. This cost of the red-brick and terracotta structure, i.e. £6000, was paid for by the Misses Stokes of The Hawthorns, Edgbaston. Thereafter the wooden clapboard building became the church hall for the Church of SS Mary & St Ambrose. The new parish, carved out of Edgbaston, was assigned in 1903. This Grade II-listed red-brick and terracotta church displaced St Bartholomew's mission church in Lower Edgbaston, a facility that had been built in 1885 to meet the needs of an expanding population.

Grade II listed. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-217497-church-of-st-mary-and-st-ambrose-birming

A gated community.