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interesting read pedro....can anyone shed light on where or is gt barr church

lyn
 
St Margaret's Church, Great Barr, is on Chapel Lane, opposite Great Barr Park and also the (now fenced off) entrance to Great Barr Hall. Chapel Lane runs from the A34 Birmingham Road up to Barr Beacon. By all accounts St Margaret's is a very active church - I went to a wedding there a few years back, and it's impressive.

Great Barr Hall is in a very dilapidated state and appears to be beyond restoration.

G
 
thanks for the info G i will go and hunt the church down....this video was shot last year...makes me weep and i wonder what lady scott would now make of her once beloved home...very sad and no way back for this building i fear:(

 
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Lady Scott had married in 1854 and presumably moved to Great Barr Hall. As mentioned above this is the advert for 1863 and the asking price is 50K.

58 years later the WB Guardians buy it for 28K.

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Lady Bateman Scott had died in December 1909 and a year later,in 1910, a memorial was placed by public subscription in the Church.. A large window was unveiled by her nephew the Marquis of Salisbury. The vicar of Great Barr sang her praises and said that the windows would commemorate Lady Scott after the home of generations of Scotts no longer remained . Within another year in 1911 the Hall and Estate was sold to become the Great Barr Mental Defficiency Colony.

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thanks pedro a well liked and repected lady by the sounds of it...i must take a closer look at the church when time permits

lyn
 
Welcome Martin. Hopefully members will come forward with interesting information. Good luck with your novel. Viv.
 
Report of a visit, apparently this month, to the hall;

www.28dayslater.co.uk

Report - - Great Barr Hall/St Margaret's, Birmingham - Jan 2021 | Asylums and Hospitals

The Scott Family and the Great Barr Hall site date back to the 14th century. The Grade II listed building which now stands on the 557 acre estate was built in 1777 as a family home for Baronet Sir Joseph Scott. It replaced the previous house named Nether House. There were 6 lodge houses for this...
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Thanks Mike. Can’t imagine any of this will now survive, it’s beyond repair. Very sad to see it fading over the years. Some of these photographers certainly take a risk filming these derelict buildings. Viv.
 
Lovely brickwork on the first lodge and roof tiles and beams on the second picture.
The last one looks a bit neglected but perhaps at a later date than the other two?

Edit - yes, it would be, going by the houses in the background - 1930's ?
 
Walsall lodge which is a twin of the Questlett Lodge is on Birmingham Road at the entrance to Merrions wood and is someones home. Handsworth lodge, pictured below is at the beginning of Handsworth Drive, again someones home. Queslett and Beacon lodge are sadly no longer.
 

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In 1961 as a pupil at Great Barr Comprehensive School on Aldridge Road we used to Cross Country Run in grounds of Great Barr Hall. During a run when I was about age 13, I badly cut my foot on a broken bottle during it. I was taken to Great Barr Hall, the nearest building for help, and was admitted by an elderly lady, who I was later told was a recluse, and that not many people had seen the inside of it. The entrance to the Hall was very large and imposing, with stone staircases. She got one of her staff to call me an ambulance. I never did find out who she was, and have not been able to find this information.
 
A staircase at the Hall. No date for this one. The Hall, sadly looks worse and worse every time you look at it. This satellite view shows how damaged it is. Is it still owned by a local consortium? It's on the buildings at risk register which means very little these days, as does its grade 2 listing. Very sad.

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