St. Faith and St. Laurence's Church, Harborne is a

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in the

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Harborne Harborne is an area of south-west Birmingham, England. It is one of the most affluent areas of the Midlands, southwest from Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in ...

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. It is part of the

Anglican Diocese of Birmingham The Diocese of Birmingham is a diocese founded in 1905 in the Church of England's Province of Canterbury, covering the north-west of the traditional county of Warwickshire, the south-east of the traditional county of Staffordshire and the nort ...

, and a member of

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History

St. Faith and St. Laurence's Church was designed by the architect

P. B. Chatwin Philip Boughton Chatwin (1873 – 17 December 1964) was an architect in Birmingham, England. Early life and education A son of the architect J. A. Chatwin, he was educated at the University of Birmingham, taking an Master of Arts, MA, and qu ...

and work started in 1937. Building work was interrupted by the outbreak of the

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and the building was completed in 1960.The Buildings of England, Warwickshire,

Nikolaus Pevsner Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (1 ...

List of Vicars

*1937-1960 W.G. Sissons *1960-1968 Roger Price *1968-1988 John Rossington *1988-2003 Ian Michael *2005– 2022 Priscilla White *2022– present David Parker

Organ

A specification of the organ can be found on th
National Pipe Organ Register

References

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Churches completed in 1960 20th-century Church of England church buildings