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Aldridge, St. Mary. SK 060 007. © Peter Wood. Link.

Barston, St. Swithin. © Aidan Thomson. Link.
Birmingham.
Blackheath.
Bloxwich.
Brierley Hill.

Chadwick End, possible former chapel. Another view. ca. SP 207 730. Both © John Bowdler (2011). John thinks that a former chapel marked on old maps is this building. There is another nearby on Netherwood Lane (the Netherwood Lane Free Church), but there was no obvious evidence that the building survives. Can you provide more information about either?
Coseley.
Coventry.
Cradley, St. Peter. SO 942 852. © Roy Graham.
Cradley Heath.

Darlaston.
Dorridge, St. Philip. SP 167 749. © Chris Emms (2009).
Dudley.

Halesowen.
Hampton in Arden, St. Mary and St. Bartholomew. SP 203 807. Coptic Orthodox Church. SP 204 808. Both © Chris Emms (2009).
Hockley Heath, St. Thomas. © Aidan Thomson. St. Thomas's Mortuary Chapel. © Caroline Webb. Umberslade Baptist Church. Interior view. Both © Aidan Thomson. Link.

King's Heath, All Saints. From an old postcard, Bulman Collection. Another old postcard, this one from Reg Dosell's Collection. Link.
Kingswinford, St. Mary. © Dorothy Turley. Church of Ascension. Interior view. Both © Aidan Thomson. Wall Heath Evangelical Free Church on Enville Road, Wall Heath. © Dennis Harper (2011). Methodist Church on Stream Road. Another view. Both © Dennis Harper (2011).
Knowle, St. John the Baptist. © Mark Turbott. Another view. © Aidan Thomson. Interior view. © Aidan Thomson. Link. U.R.C. © Mark Turbott.

Meriden, St. Lawrence. SP 252 816. © Peter Wood. Link.
Moxley, All Saints. © John French.

Netherton, Noah's Ark Methodist Church (disused). Built in 1925 on the site of an earlier church, this listed building is to be redeveloped as housing. Congregational Church, Primrose Hill. Both © John French.

Old Hill, Holy Trinity. Link. Wesleyan Methodist Church, soon to be demolished. Both © John French.
Oldbury.

Packwood, St. Giles. Interior view. Both © Aidan Thomson. Link.
Pedmore, St. Peter. From an old postcard, in Reg Dosell's Collection. Link.
Perry Barr, St. John. © Peter Wood.

Quarry Bank, Christ Church. SO 929 861. © Roy Graham.

Rowley Regis, St. Giles. © John French. Link.

Sedgley.
Shirley. Previously in the unknown section. This has been identified (thanks to John Clements) as St. James the Great. There are some small differences between the postcard and the photo on the church website (see the tower pinnacles, for example), but there are enough similarities to make the identification certain. From an old postcard (franked 1905), in Steve Bulman's Collection.
Smethwick.
Solihull.
Stourbridge, St. Andrew (1939) at Wollescote. SO 926 829. Lye & Wollescote Cemetery Chapel (1878) is Grade II listed. SO 922 840. Link. Both © Chris Emms (2011). Unitarian Church at Lye, © unitarian.co.uk. This, and many other old engravings on this website, are reproduced from the downloadable books on the Unitarian Church Headquarters website here. The books are Pictures of Unitarian Churches by Emily Sharpe (1901) and the 1914 edition of Nonconformist Church Architecture by Ronald P. Jones M.A, (Oxon), and the images are reproduced by kind permission of James Barry of Unitarian Church Headquarters. My appreciation also to Mike Berrell for his efforts in this regard.
Sutton Coldfield, Holy Trinity. From an old postcard (franked 1909), Graeme Harvey's Collection. Link.

Temple Balsall, St. Mary. Interior view. Both © Aidan Thomson. Link.
Tipton.

Wall Heath, St. Andrew (U.R.C.) on Kidderminster Road. Another view. Both © Dennis Harper (2011).
Walsall.
Warley, St. Mary, at Bearwood. Redeemed Christian Church of God, lies on the boundary of Birmingham and Warley. Both © John French.
Wednesbury.
West Bromwich.
Willenhall.
Wolverhampton.
Wordsley, Holy Trinity. © Dorothy Turley. Another view, © Dennis Harper (2011). Link. Amblecote Wordsley Methodist Church (1993) on Audnam and Platts Road. © Dennis Harper (2011).

Yardley, St. Edburgha. From an old postcard (franked 1909), Bulman Collection. Link.

 

 
 

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