MOSELEY - St Mary

St Mary’s Row, Moseley (A-Z: 4B 90)

Daughter Parish of Kings Norton 1853

Established as a chapelry of Kings Norton late 14th C.

Daughter parishes:

St Anne Moseley 1875

Parts of the parishes of:

All Saints

Kings Heath

1863

The Ascension

Stirchley

1912

St Agnes

Moseley

1914

Neighbouring parishes

Aston, Yardley, Kings Norton, Northfield, Edgbaston.

Registers at Birmingham Central Library – Archives Department

registers of baptisms

1758-1960

registers of marriages

1853-1979;

registers of burials

1762-1944

registers of confirmations

1908-53

registers of banns

1901-80

register of graves

1904

burial notebooks

1867-95

plans of burial ground

1880s-97

list of recipients of bread charity

1850-61

Bishop’s Transcripts at Worcester

Commence 1795

BMSGH Register Copies

None

Gazetteer/Directory entries

MOSELEY, a chapelry in the parish of KING’S NORTON, upper division of the hundred of HALFSHIRE, county of WORCESTER, 2 miles (S.) from Birmingham. The population is returned with the parish. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Worcester, endowed with £100 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Bromsgrove. The chapel, dedicated to St Mary, has lately received an addition of three hundred and sixty-two sittings, of which two hundred and forty-seven are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels having granted £250 towards defrayng the expense. [Lewis 1831]


[Last updated: 3rd April 2000 ]