The Churches of Britain and Ireland
Blackheath, West
Midlands
Anointed Church (2024 Streetview) on Green Lane and Masters Lane. SO 9793 8608. Link. Beeches Road Baptist Chapel, as seen by Streetview in 2022. Its date-stones declare it to be Cave Adullam, of 1897. SO 9702 8616. Link. Bethel Church is on Vicarage Road, and was seen by Streetview in 2022. SO 9744 8603. Link. Blackheath Central Methodist Church on High Street and Darby Street. SO 9714 8644. © John French. Another view, © John Balaam (2025). Link. It stands on the site of Primitive Methodist Chapel, dated here (there is a photo of it) to 1903, standing on the site of a yet earlier P.M. of 1851. A glimpse of Blackheath Jamia Mosque (2024 Streetview) on Long Lane and Malt Mill Lane. Another Streetview from 2024. SO 9771 8587. Link. Blackheath U.R.C. on Long Lane and Green Lane. SO 9769 8611. © John French. It has a sign saying Congregational Church. No longer U.R.C., between late 2009 or in 2010 it had changed hands and become Church of God. 2024 Streetview. Link. Kingsway International Christian Centre on Birmingham Road and Causeway was formerly United Methodist, and before that, Methodist New Connexion (source). It dates to between 1902 and 1914. SO 9740 8656. © John French. Between 2014 and 2016 this had become Kingdom Central - 2022 Streetview. Facebook. A predecessor is shown on earlier maps on the western part of the site, now a car park (2022 Streetview). St. Paul on Long Lane and Church Street. Interior view. SO 9764 8621. © John French. Link. The history page dates it to 1868-9, and also says that a planned tower and spire were never built. Salvation Army on Park Street. SO 9764 8646. © John French. Streetviews suggest that the Army had left during or soon after 2010, and the building was taken over by Shri Pashupati Nath Mandir of UK (Shani Dham) - Hindu Temple (2022 Streetview). Facebook. The Flame Community Church (Assemblies of God and Elim Pentecostal) on Cardale Street, as seen by Streetview in 2022. SO 9763 8656. Link.
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05 May 2025
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