St Barbara's Church, Earlsdon

St Barbara's Church, Earlsdon

St Barbara's Church is in Earlsdon, a suburb of Coventry, West Midlands, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Coventry, South, the archdeaconry of Coventry, and the diocese of Coventry.[1] The church was built in 1930–31 to replace a smaller church nearby. It was designed by Henry Paley of the Lancaster architects Austin and Paley, with a local man, Herbert Jackson, acting as clerk of works and consulting architect.[2][3]

The foundation stone was laid on 28 September 1930 by Sir Alfred Herbert, a local industrialist, and the church was consecrated on 26 September 1931. Due to a lack of finance, the church was never completed, the missing parts being the western 2½ bays, two porches, a baptistry and a bell turret.[2][3] The total cost of the church was £17,644 (equivalent to £1,080,000 in 2015),[4] of which £975 was donated by Sir Alfred to build the Lady Chapel as a memorial to his late wife.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Earlsdon - St. Barbara's, Earlsdon, Church of England, retrieved 29 August 2012
  2. 1 2 3 Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English Heritage, pp. 183, 253, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8
  3. 1 2 History of St Barbara's Church, St Barbara's, Earlsdon, retrieved 29 August 2012
  4. ↑ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Gregory Clark (2016), "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)" MeasuringWorth.

External links

Media related to St Barbara's Church, Earlsdon at Wikimedia Commons

Coordinates: 52°23′50″N 1°32′20″W / 52.3971°N 1.5389°W / 52.3971; -1.5389


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, April 09, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.