St Mary's Church Acocks Green

[Sian]

I have a marriage certificate for my husband's parents who were married at The Parish Church of Acocks Green in the County of Birmingham in 1939.

Could anyone tell me if this was St Mary's? and has anyone got a photograph of it please?

Many thanks
Sian

 

[Phil]

I'm am not a religious person, but as far as I am aware St Mary's has always been the parish church of Acocks Green.

Phil

Replacement - first image of church dated 1905

 

[Sian]

Thank you Phil ~ I wonder why it wasn't written on the marriage certificate?

I am most grateful to you and for the photograph too.

Best wishes
Sian

 

[Vivienne14]

A few more images. The interior view is c1906, the exterior B&W c1914. Sorry, no date for the colour view along Warwick Road. Viv

 

[Brummie Novice]

I'm am not a religious person, but as far as I am aware St Mary's has always been the parish church of Acocks Green.

Phil

Replacement - first image of church dated 1905

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Both my maternal grandparents are buried here!

 

[Reddi]

Looking at this thread reminded me that I was Christened here in 1949 on my Fathers 38th Birthday.

 

[devonjim]

. Sorry, no date for the colour view along Warwick Road. Viv

Quite a narrow window for a date, trams only ran on this part of Warwick Rd for some 15 years, 1922-1937.

 

[devonjim]

Family connections with St. Mary's. Parents married here in 1939, I was christened here end of 1940, I assume before the bomb damage in Dec 1940, at least one uncle attended the church school in Broad Rd. After the war the walls of the nave were raised to reduce the pitch of the roof nb. the different shaped windows that replaced the original roundels in #2 above.