Emmanuel Church, Sparkbrook is a redundant

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 Ir ...

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in the

Church of England The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britai ...

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which has been converted to residential accommodation.

History

The foundation stone was laid on 24 September 1900.Birmingham Daily Post. Tuesday 25 September 1900. p.7. The Church Congress The church was designed 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 ...

and opened in 1901, and was extended in 1927. It was a chapel of ease for

Christ Church, Sparkbrook Christ Church, Sparkbrook is a church in 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 Warwi ...

until 1928 when it acquired its own parish. Emmanuel Church was closed in 1990 and the parish merged with

St John's Church, Sparkhill St John's Church is an Anglican church in Sparkhill Birmingham. St John's is a welcoming multi-ethnic church situated in the heart of Birmingham's Balti Belt, it is one of England's most ethnically and religiously diverse parishes. The main S ...

. The building was converted into a residential care home for elderly people, operated by the Ashram Housing Association.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sparkbrook Church of England church buildings in Birmingham, West Midlands Former Church of England church buildings Churches completed in 1901 Grade II listed buildings in Birmingham Grade II listed churches in the West Midlands (county)