Nick - are you sure that is St Andrews and not St Aidans? St Aidans is now All Saints in Small Heath which at the time was in 'the vast parish of Aston'. This church is only a few yards from the addresses of the bride and groom as shown on the certificate. The right hand side of your cert isn't shown - was Francis Pearse the Vicar or a curate? See https://www.allsaintsonline.co.uk/information/history/history.html
Yes, the chap with the moustache is indeed Rev Richards. He was my great great grandfather. His beloved wife Amy died tragically young from cancer. I have a beautiful painting of a design for a stained glass window at St Andrews in her memory. I would love to know what happened to that window - my great uncle was offered it when the church was demolished in 1985 but could find nowhere to store it. I would love to know if someone else took the window and if so, where it is now. It would be nice to find the owner and tell them the story behind it too. So if anyone knows - please let me know! Thank you.
From British History Online:
46. ST. ANDREW, Bordesley (St. Andrew's Rd.), the fifth and last of the churches built by the Birmingham Church Building Society (the Ten Churches Fund), was designed by R. C. Carpenter in the Decorated style and was consecrated in 1846. (fn. 3) It was of red sandstone and comprised chancel, nave, north aisle and tower with spire. The structure was seriously damaged by storm in 1894; the spire was removed and the church restored in 1901. (fn. 4) A parish was assigned out of St. Peter and St. Paul, Aston, in 1846. (fn. 5) The living, which became a vicarage in 1889, is in the gift of the bishop and public trustees alternately. (fn. 6) Part of the parish was transferred to St. Basil's, Deritend, in 1896, and part was taken to form the parish of St. Oswald, Small Heath (1889). In 1907 the parish was enlarged by part of St. Saviour's, Saltley. (fn. 7) An iron chapel licensed for public worship was later consecrated as St. Oswald's, Small Heath. St. Giles's mission church, Green Lane, has been licensed since 1905; St. Matthew's mission church, Garrison St. (formerly a mission of St. Saviour's, Saltley), in Garland Street until 1925, was transferred to St. Andrew's parish in 1907, and was closed during the Second World War. (fn. 8) During the last decade of the 19th century this church's property and morale seem to have been in poor condition. (fn. 9)
I think I remember somewhere near there a large house, though I was very young at a time so I could be misremembering. It was a square house set back a bit from the road, and it seemed a bit out of place, too upmarket. Does that ring any bells with anyone?
A gruesome a question: when the church was demolished, what happened to the graveyard?