St. Faith and St. Laurence's Church, Harborne
Encyclopedia
St. Faith and St. Laurence's Church, Harborne is a parish church
in the Church of England
in Harborne
, Birmingham
.
and work started in 1937. Building work was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War and the building was completed in 1960.
Parish church
A parish church , in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches....
in the Church of England
Church of England
The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...
in Harborne
Harborne
Harborne is an area three miles southwest from Birmingham city centre, England. It is a Birmingham City Council ward in the formal district and in the parliamentary constituency of Birmingham Edgbaston.- Geography :...
, Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
.
History
St. Faith and St. Laurence's Church was designed by the architect P. B. ChatwinP. B. Chatwin
P. B. Chatwin was an architect in Birmingham, England.From 1866 he worked with his father, architect J. A...
and work started in 1937. Building work was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War and the building was completed in 1960.
List of Vicars
- 1937-1960 W.G. Sissons
- 1960-1968 Roger Price
- 1968-1988 John Anthony Rossington
- 1988-2003 Ian Michael
- 2005- Priscilla White