Pioneer Birmingham historian William Hutton provides an interesting account of the later history of the Deritend Chapel.
William Hutton's
History of Birmingham (Sixth edition. Birmingham: James Guest, 1835). Pages 257-258 (somewhat edited):
St John's Chapel, Deritend.
This, though joining to the parish of Birmingham, is a chapel of ease belonging to Aston, two miles distant. Founded in ... 1382. As soon as the chapel was erected, William Geffen, Thomas Holden, Robert of the Green, Richard Bene, Thomas de Belne, and John Smith, procured a license from the king, to enable them to endow it with lands ... to support a priest; who, with his successors, seem to have exercised the usual functions of office, as singing, eating, preaching, and sleeping, till 1537, when Henry VIII seized the property as chantry lands. ... Two priests, who officiated at Aston, then possessed the pulpit, and divided the income.
I am inclined to think, by interest made to the crown, Henry returned the lands; for in 1553, we find John Mole and Edward Keys, incumbents of Deritend ....
In 1677, Humphrey Lowe, of Coventry, bequeathed a farm at Rowley-Regis, called the Brick-house ... to support the chapel. This bequest is held, in trust, by six of the inhabitants of Deritend or Bordesley.
Solicitations were made in 1707, for Queen Ann's bounty, but ... they were rejected.
This chapel does not, like others in Birmingham, seem to have been erected first, and then the houses brought round it. It appears, by its extreme circumscribed latitude, to have been founded upon the site of other buildings, which were purchased, or rather given, by Sir John de Birmingham, Lord of Deritend, and situated upon the boundaries of the manor, perhaps to accommodate in some measure the people of Digbeth; because the church in Birmingham must, for many ages, have been too small for the inhabitants.
Time seems to have worn out that building of 1382, in the windows of which were the arms of Lord Dudley, and Dudley empaling Berkley, both knights of the garter, descended from the Somerys, Barons of Dudley castle; also a whole figure of Walter Arden Esq, of an ancient family, often mentioned Lord of Bordesley. The present building was erected in 1735, and the steeple in 1762. In 1777, eight of the most musical bells, together with a clock entered the steeple. ... The building is of brick, and will accommodate about seven hundred persons. The incumbent is elected by the inhabitant householders of the hamlets of Deritend and Bordesley.
Pictured below: the Deritend Chapel circa 1780. [Hutton, facing page 257.]
Note added: the clock installed in 1777 was made by eminent Birmingham clockmaker George Donisthorpe (died 1802).