Location Rubery Denomination Church of England Completed 1960 Opened 1960 Groundbreaking 1959 | Country England Dedication St Chad Deanery Kings Norton Parish Rubery Architect Richard Twentyman | |
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Address New Road, Rubery, West Midlands, B45 9JA, United Kingdom B45, United Kingdom Diocese Anglican Diocese of Birmingham Similar Hurst Spit, Coronation Chair, Kinniside Stone Circle, Emmanuel Church - Bentley, St Nicholas' Church | ||
St Chad’s Church, Rubery is a Church of England parish church in Rubery, Worcestershire.
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History
The church evolved in 1895 as a mission church from Holy Trinity Church, Lickey. The first building was a small wooden church. The wooden church comprised a nave only, with campanile tower at the west end, tiled with shingles, the roof with red and blue tiles. It accommodated 300 persons and cost £530. The architects were W. Jeffery Hopkins and A.B. Pinckney.
A parish was assigned out of Holy Trinity Church, Lickey in 1933.
The Second World War prevented progress on building a new church, but this was started in 1957 to designs by the architect Richard Twentyman and completed in 1959. Pevsner describes the building as a fine Modernist example.
Organ
An organ from St Margaret’s Church, Ladywood was transferred here when St Margaret’s Church closed. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.