St James the Great, Shirley

St James the Great, Shirley

St James the Great, Shirley
Coordinates: 52°24′22.25″N 1°49′35.41″W / 52.4061806°N 1.8265028°W / 52.4061806; -1.8265028
Location Shirley, West Midlands
Country England
Denomination Church of England
Website salterstreetandshirleyparish.org/st-james/
Architecture
Heritage designation Grade C listed
Groundbreaking 1831
Administration
Parish Shirley
Deanery Shirley
Archdeaconry Birmingham
Diocese Anglican Diocese of Birmingham

St James the Great, Shirley is a Grade C listed Church of England parish in the Anglican Diocese of Birmingham.[1]

History

St James Church was started in 1831 and enlarged in 1882. In 1893, Shirley became its own ecclesiastical parish.[2]

The church is in a joint parish with:

References

  1. The buildings of England. Warwickshire, Nikolaus Pevsner
  2. 'Parishes: Solihull', A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 4: Hemlingford Hundred (1947), pp. 214-229; URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42685&strquery=shirley warwick shelley ; date accessed: 23 February 2012.
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