Old Church Road/Vicarage Road, Harborne (O.S. GR SP0283)
Ancient Parish
Daughter parishes:
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Smethwick |
1842 |
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St John the Baptist, Harborne |
1859 |
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St Faith & St Laurence |
1933 |
Neighbouring parishes
West Bromwich, Handsworth, Yardley, Kings Norton, Northfield, Halesowen, Oldbury.
Registers at Birmingham Central Library – Archives Department
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registers of baptisms |
1538-1970 |
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registers of marriages |
1538-1989 |
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registers of burials |
1538-1984 |
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registers of confirmations |
1915-86 |
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registers of banns |
1762-1991 |
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plan of parish |
c 1810 |
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survey of parish |
1827-28 [EP6 1] |
An additional deposit of records of this church was received in 1996 and has not yet been catalogued.
Bishop’s Transcripts at Lichfield
Baptisms 1660-1837, Marriages 1660-1837, Burials 1660-1837
(Baptisms and Burials missing 1838-1849 and 1852-1855)
BMSGH Register Copies
None
Gazetteer/Directory entries
HARBORNE, a parish in the southern division of the hundred of OFFLOW, county of STAFFORD 3 3/4 mike (S. W. by W.) from Birmingham, containing, with the hamlet of Smethwick, 3350 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, rated in the king's books at £4, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £ 1200 royal bounty, and in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, has a tower in the later style of English architecture, and has lately received an addition of three hundred and sixty sittings, of which two hundred and sixty are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels having granted £250 towards defraying the expense. A school room has been endowed by Mr Henry hinckley with three tenements producing an income of £24. 15. a year, for which sum forty children receive free instruction. [Lewis 1831]