Church of SS Mary and Ambrose, Edgbaston is a

Grade II listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

parish church in the

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History

The site for the church was given by

Augustus Gough-Calthorpe, 6th Baron Calthorpe Augustus Gough-Calthorpe, 6th Baron Calthorpe (8 November 1829 – 22 July 1910), was a British agriculturist and philanthropist. Family He was born at Elvetham Hall, Hampshire. He was third son in the family of four sons and six daughters of Fr ...

. The church cost £8,000 with the parishioners contributing £2,000 and the Misses Stokes of the Hawthorns, Edgbaston, the balance. The church was consecrated by the Bishop of Worcester Rt. Revd. John Perone on 28 September 1898. The church was built between 1897 and 1898 by

J. A. Chatwin Julius Alfred Chatwin FRIBA, Royal British Society of Sculptors, ARBS, FSAScot (24 April 1830 – 6 June 1907) was a British architect. He was involved with the building and modification of many churches in Birmingham, and practised both Goth ...

. It was a daughter parish to

St Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston St Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston, also known as Edgbaston Old Church, is a parish church in the Church of England in Edgbaston, Birmingham. History The Grade II listed church is medieval, but was largely rebuilt in the 19th century. The cha ...

Clergy

* 1891–1915: Arthur G Lloyd * 1915–1950: Martin Cope Heathcote Hughes * 1950–1975: Alfred Doyle * 1975–1983: Nigel Graham * 1983–1988: Richard Wilcox * 1990–1994: John Ward * 1996–2002: Hilary Savage * 2004–2016: Catherine Grylls

Organ

The first organ in the church was built by J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd in 1898. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.

Organists

*W. Timperley ca. 1890 *H.S. Williams ca. 1907 *C.F. Mottram 1919 - ???? *Geoffrey Norman Gibbon 1946 - 1948 *

Anthony John Cooke Anthony John Cooke FRCO (29 January 1931 – 6 October 2012) was a British organist and composer. Life Born in Birmingham in 1931, he was educated at King Edward VI Aston School, where he later taught. In 1949 he went up to Keble College, Oxfor ...

1948 – 1949 *

Harrison Oxley Thomas Frederick Harrison Oxley (known professionally as Harrison Oxley and socially as Fred Oxley) (3 April 1933 – 6 April 2009) was a British organist, who was appointed Organist of St Edmundsbury Cathedral aged 24. At the time, he was ...

1949 - 1950 *Geoffrey Norman Gibbons 1950 - 1961 (afterwards organist at Henley in Arden) *Malcolm Jones 1968 - ???? (formerly organist of St Philip's Church, Dorridge) *Anthony White 1983 - 1986 *David Dewar 1989 - 1991

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Church of Saints Mary and Ambrose Edgbaston Churches completed in 1898 19th-century Church of England church buildings

Edgbaston Edgbaston () is an affluent suburban area of central Birmingham, England, historically in Warwickshire, and curved around the southwest of the city centre. In the 19th century, the area was under the control of the Gough-Calthorpe family an ...

Grade II listed churches in Birmingham Edgbaston 1898 establishments in England