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St Clements Church Nechells

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c.kember

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Hi, does anyone know of the existance of a picture of St Clements Church, Nechells? My Great Great grandparents maried there in 1873.

They were living at 13 High Park Street, Nechells but I think those properties have been demolished?

If anyone knows of any pictures i'd love to see them

Kind Regards

Chris
 
The Local Studies and History at Birmingham Central Library have a large number of photographic collections and they may hold a picture of St Cements Church this is the link:
https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/cs/Sa...092751766&pagename=BCC/Common/Wrapper/Wrapper

The e-mail address for enquiries is [email protected]

If you use the search facility on this forum you may also be able to find further information about the places you are enquiring about, for example this forum link is for Wimbushes on Nechells green.

https://www.birminghamforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,3286.0.html

louisa
 
Hello
can any one help me find a picture of St Clements Church Nechelles, cant seem to find one.
I know yhe church was demolished in the 1940s and my grandparents were married there in the 1920s.
Ta Adele:)
 
I think this picture has been on before, but not sure where, or it might be another forum
Mike

St2BClements_opt.jpg
 
Great thanks for that, I tried to see if I could see if St Clements had been mentioned before but couldnt see anything.
Adele
 
st clements was at the top of our road, mom and dad were married there and i was christened there
 
thanks phil i have been given a private one probably taken in the 60s will try and scan and post it tomorrow

lyn
 
c.kember said:
Hi, does anyone know of the existance of a picture of St Clements Church, Nechells? My Great Great grandparents maried there in 1873.

They were living at 13 High Park Street, Nechells but I think those properties have been demolished?

If anyone knows of any pictures i'd love to see them

Kind Regards

Chris
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The church was pulled down. All that's left is the church hall where Sunday School was held. High Park Street has been replaced with a huge Chinese Supermarket which also replaces pubs, a coal yard, a school, a factory, a bank, a chemist, many shops and even more houses.
 
archierod said:
st clements was at the top of our road, mom and dad were married there and i was christened there
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My sister, Linda, was christened there, too, in 1950. The church was where I played the part of the Angel Gabriel in my school nativity, twice. My school was St Clement's in High Park Street. I was also in the church choir as well as the school choir.
 
ADELE said:
Hello
can any one help me find a picture of St Clements Church Nechelles, cant seem to find one.
I know yhe church was demolished in the 1940s and my grandparents were married there in the 1920s.
Ta Adele:)
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The church was demolished much later. Probably the eighties although I'm not sure.
 
I'm hoping to find some information about this church where my late Mum worshipped as a young woman. I've seen photographs of it and know it was demolished in the 1970's but do any of you know which St. Clement it was named after and remember what it was like inside.Also,when she was in her seventies, Mum mentioned she'd been a "Clementine"-a member of their amateur dramatic group. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Apologies for the churchy pun! After Mum met my Dad she became a Roman Catholic and they were married at St. Joseph's Church, Thimblemill Lane. I think it saddened her to leave behind the social activities she was part of at St. Clement's and in those days, she had to cut ties with it completely.
 
Welcome Sheila. I’m moving your post to an existing thread about the Church. I think you’ll find it interesting. Viv.

Edit posts now moved to this thread.
 
Sheila Jacob said:
I'm hoping to find some information about this church where my late Mum worshipped as a young woman. I've seen photographs of it and know it was demolished in the 1970's but do any of you know which St. Clement it was named after and remember what it was like inside.Also,when she was in her seventies, Mum mentioned she'd been a "Clementine"-a member of their amateur dramatic group. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Apologies for the churchy pun! After Mum met my Dad she became a Roman Catholic and they were married at St. Joseph's Church, Thimblemill Lane. I think it saddened her to leave behind the social activities she was part of at St. Clement's and in those days, she had to cut ties with it completely.
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It is sad that your mother had to choose. I remember many using the term “non-Catholic.”

The reports of the consecration in 1859 don’t shed any light on why it was named after St Clement, but looking at lists of Church of England Saints seems to refer to 23rd September, Clement, Bishop of Rome, a 100
en.m.wikipedia.org

Clement of Rome - Wikipedia

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Some information about the church and it’s associated missions (from British History online) is below:

“ST. CLEMENT, Nechells (Nechells Park Rd.), a cruciform building of brick and stone designed by J. A. Chatwin in the Gothic style and consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, transepts, and a turret at the south-east angle of the nave, was consecrated in 1859. A parish was assigned out of St. Matthew's, Duddeston, in 1860. The living, a perpetual curacy from 1860 and a vicarage from 1868, is in the gift of the incumbent of St. Matthew's.

Part of the parish was taken to form the parish of St. Catherine, Nechells (1879). A number of missions have been established from St. Clement's: Scholefield Street schoolroom was licensed for public worship, 1866-1907; High Park Street schools, 1908-9; St. Clement's East mission room, Mount St., 1908-26; and St. Clement's South mission room, Long Acre, 1908-26. St. Clement's North mission church, Cuckoo Rd. (formerly the Cuckoo Road Methodist Chapel), and St. Clement's South mission hall, High Park St. and Thimble Mill Lane, were each licensed for public worship, 1908-52”.

Viv.
 
Pedrocut said:
It is sad that your mother had to choose. I remember many using the term “non-Catholic.”

The reports of the consecration in 1859 don’t shed any light on why it was named after St Clement, but looking at lists of Church of England Saints seems to refer to 23rd September, Clement, Bishop of Rome, a 100
en.m.wikipedia.org

Clement of Rome - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org en.m.wikipedia.org
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Thanks very much for responding to my post. "Mixed marriages" were frowned on then and my Dad was very devout. I remember Mum telling me ,when she was in her seventies, that the Catholic Mass only came alive to her once it was said in English.
St. Clement of Rome was the only Clement I could find,too.Rather ironic in the circumstances!
 
Vivienne14 said:
Some information about the church and it’s associated missions (from British History online) is below:

“ST. CLEMENT, Nechells (Nechells Park Rd.), a cruciform building of brick and stone designed by J. A. Chatwin in the Gothic style and consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, transepts, and a turret at the south-east angle of the nave, was consecrated in 1859. A parish was assigned out of St. Matthew's, Duddeston, in 1860. The living, a perpetual curacy from 1860 and a vicarage from 1868, is in the gift of the incumbent of St. Matthew's.

Part of the parish was taken to form the parish of St. Catherine, Nechells (1879). A number of missions have been established from St. Clement's: Scholefield Street schoolroom was licensed for public worship, 1866-1907; High Park Street schools, 1908-9; St. Clement's East mission room, Mount St., 1908-26; and St. Clement's South mission room, Long Acre, 1908-26. St. Clement's North mission church, Cuckoo Rd. (formerly the Cuckoo Road Methodist Chapel), and St. Clement's South mission hall, High Park St. and Thimble Mill Lane, were each licensed for public worship, 1908-52”.

Viv.
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Many thanks for this.
 
My grandparents married there two, and later on in life in beknown to my father he was actually living in the grounds of that church, now called James memorial homes, he too is now deceased but there are still some original walls and a window and the hall as another member has said, I took some photographs in 2011 when the funeral was leaving the church hall x
 

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