KING’S NORTON - St Nicolas

The Green, Kings Norton (A-Z: 5E 105)

Ancient Parish

Daughter parishes:

St Mary

Moseley

1853

St Paul

Balsall Heath

1853

St Agnes

Cotteridge

1916

Parts of the parishes of

Christ Church

Yardley Wood

1849

St Mary

Wythall

1853

All Saints

Kings Heath

1863

The Ascension

Stirchley

1912

St Francis

Bournville

1926

St Mary Magdalen

Hazelwell

1932

Neighbouring parishes

Edgbaston, Aston, Yardley, Tanworth, Beoley, Alvechurch, Cofton Hackett, Bromsgrove, Frankley, Northfield

Registers at Birmingham Central Library – Archives Department

registers of baptisms

1546-1989

registers of marriages

1547-1990

registers of burials

1546-1990

registers of confirmations

1910-81

registers of banns

1962-89

register of graves

c1913

deeds and papers relating to parish workhouse, Old Grammar School, Saracen's Head, and Parish Hall

1846-1973

Bishop’s Transcripts at Worcester

Commence 1613

BMSGH Register Copies (Fiche)

Part 1 Baptisms & Burials 1792-1844, Marriages 1754-1837

Part 2 Baptisms 1546-1791

Part 3 Marriages 1546-1754, Burials 1546-1791

Gazetteer/Directory entries

NORTON (KINGS), a parish (formerly a market town) in the upper division of the hundred of HALFSHIRE county of WORCESTER, 6 miles (S.S.W.) from Birmingham, containing, with Headley, Moseley, Moundsley, and Rednal, 3651 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Bromsgrove, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester. The church, which is dedicated to St. Nicholas, is spacious, and principally in the decorated style of English architecture, with later insertions; the tower and spire are very fine. A free grammar school was endowed by Edward VI. This town received the grant of a market from James I; and during the succeeding reign, in the year 1645, Hawkesley house, then belonging to the Middlemores was burnt down by the royalists. The market is disused; but fairs are held April 25th and September 5th. The Birmingham and Worcester canal, in passing through this parish, forms a junction with that of Stratford on Avon, and is conveyed through a tunnel into the Parish of Alvechurch. [Lewis 1831]


[Last updated: 3rd April 2000 ]