Little more on St. Jude's-Hill Street:
ST. JUDE, Birmingham (Hill St.), a building of brick in the Early English style designed by Orford and Nash, and consisting of chancel, nave and aisles, was begun in 1847. (
fn. 74) A parish had been assigned out of St. Martin's, Birmingham, and St. Philip's, Birmingham, in 1845. (
fn. 75) Services were held in the national school in Pinfold Street until the church was ready; it was consecrated in 1851. (
fn. 76) From 1845 the living was a perpetual curacy; it became a vicarage in 1868, and is in the gift of the Crown and the bishop alternately. (
fn. 77) The parish was enlarged by a further part of St. Martin's in 1885. (
fn. 78) St. Jude's mission hall, Inge St., was licensed for public worship, 1888-1907.
Source: British History Online