All Saints' Church, Gravelly Hill
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All Saints’ Church, Gravelly Hill is a
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in the
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History

The church was built between 1900 and 1901 to designs by the architect V.S. Peel, as a chapel of ease to St Barnabas' Church, Erdington. It was enlarged in 1918 by
William Bidlake William Henry Bidlake MA, FRIBA (12 May 1861 – 6 April 1938) was a British architect, a leading figure of the Arts and Crafts movement in Birmingham and Director of the School of Architecture at Birmingham School of Art from 1919 until 1924. ...
. In 1928 the church was consecrated, and in 1929 a parish was assigned out of St Barnabas' Church, Erdington and St Peter and St Paul's Church, Aston.Birmingham Diocesan Calendar. 1930 p.142 In 1934, part of the parish was taken to form a new parish for St Mark's Church, Stockland Green.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gravelly HIll Church of England church buildings in Birmingham, West Midlands Churches completed in 1901 20th-century Church of England church buildings