Carrs Lane Church

Carrs Lane Church

The church in April 2011
52°28′46.62″N 1°53′35.02″W / 52.4796167°N 1.8930611°W / 52.4796167; -1.8930611Coordinates: 52°28′46.62″N 1°53′35.02″W / 52.4796167°N 1.8930611°W / 52.4796167; -1.8930611
Location Birmingham
Country England
Denomination United Reformed and Methodist
Previous denomination Congregational
Architecture
Architect(s) Denys Hinton and Partners
Groundbreaking 1968
Completed 1971 (1971)

Carrs Lane Church, also known as The Church at Carrs Lane is a church in Birmingham[1] and is noted as having the largest free-standing cross in the country.[2]

History

The church was founded as an independent chapel in 1748[3] and then enlarged in 1812 at a cost of £2,000 to seat 600 people. A further enlargement was undertaken in 1820 to designs by the architect Thomas Stedman Whitwell, which was then re-fronted by Yeoville Thomason in 1876. The church became part of the Congregational Union in 1832.

The current building was begun in 1968 by Denys Hinton and Partners and completed in 1971. It became part of the United Reformed Church when the Presbyterian and Congregational churches merged in 1972. The church bears a blue plaque erected by Birmingham Civic Society in 1995 to commemorate Dr R. W. Dale, minister at Carrs Lane from 1854 until his death, and prominent preacher of the "Civic Gospel".

Since the closure of the Methodist Central Hall, Birmingham, the building has been shared with the Methodist Congregation, as a local ecumenical partnership under the name "The Church at Carrs Lane".[4]

Organ

The church has a pipe organ by Hill Norman and Beard dating from 1970. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.[5]

References

  1. ↑ The Buildings of England. Warwickshire, Nikolaus Pevsner. p.112
  2. ↑ "Carrs Lane History". Carrs Lane Church. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "The Jubilee of Carrs Lane Church". Birmingham Daily Post. Birmingham. 26 September 1870. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "A new church is born..." (PDF). Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  5. ↑ "NPOR N07421". National Pipe Organ Register. British Institute of Organ Studies. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/19/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.