The Churches of Britain and Ireland
Old
Hill,
West Midlands
The former Elim Pentecostal Church on Bearmore Road. It post-dates a map of 1959, and was being offered for sale in 2012 (Streetview). Conversion work seemed to be on-going in 2024 (Streetview). SO 9513 8615. Holy Trinity on Halesowen Road. Its grade II listing dates it to circa 1875. SO 9552 8626. © John French. Link. Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses on Halesowen Road, as seen by Streetview in 2022. SO 9558 8631. Lawrence Lane Methodist Church (2019 Streetview) stands on Lawrence Lane, Clyde Street and Pearson Street. As of 2024, Google Streetview is saying "permanently closed", though the church website is still available. Closure is confirmed here, where conversion plans are mentioned. Another view from Streetview in 2022. SO 9526 8627. The former Macefield's Mission (2022 Streetview) of 1904 stands on Claremont Street. A 2022 news story discusses planned use as a nursery. SO 9520 8636. The Methodist Church on Halesowen Road was originally Wesleyan. This source dates it to 1904, which, if correct, means that the chapel had a predecessor on the same site (with the same footprint), shown on a map of 1887. Streetviews show that it was still standing in 2011, but gone in 2012. In 2024 the site was still vacant. A 2023 news story discusses planning proposals. SO 9577 8604. © John French. Our Lady of Lourdes (R.C.) on King Street, as seen by Streetview in 2009. SO 9545 8640. Link - says it was blessed in 1988 and consecrated in 2008. It had been preceded on the same site by an old factory building which had been used as a church since the 1920's and demolished in the late 1970's. There used to be a Primitive Methodist Tabernacle on Highgate Street. Preceded on the same site by a chapel of 1828, the foundation stone for the second chapel was laid in 1869. Its site was seen by Streetview in 2022. SO 9566 8662. Link. Spring Meadow Baptist Chapel stands on the south side of Spring Meadow, and was seen by the Streetview van in 2022. A splinter from here in 1902 formed Ebenezer (see above). SO 9567 8620. Link. The history page dates it to 1841. The site (the right edge of the roundabout and adjacent roadway) of a demolished Wesleyan Reform Union Chapel on the east side of Halesowen Road, as seen by Streetview in 2022. SO 9545 8665. No longer marked on a map of 1953 (surveyed not less than 4 years earlier), it was replaced by St. James Wesleyan Reform Church (2012 Streetview) on Garratt's Lane. SO 9579 8666. Link. The site (2018 Streetview) of the demolished Zion's Hill Methodist New Connexion Chapel on Halesowen Road. SO 9555 8633. The building at right is its former Sunday School, now Old Hill Masjid (2018 Streetview). The building today is about twice the length of the Sunday School shown on a map of 1887. The foundation stone commemorates the support of Eliza Tinsley, which gives a building date of no later than 1882, the year she died. Link.
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17 September 2024
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