Bit of history on St. Thomas, Bath Row:
ST. THOMAS, Birmingham (Bath Row, Holloway Head), was one of the two Greek Revival churches in Birmingham designed by Rickman and Hutchinson (see no. 114). It was built of stone with a tall west tower rising above two quadrant-shaped Ionic porticos. The tower is of three stages, the square middle stage having a pediment supported on Ionic columns to each face, while the highest stage is octagonal, surmounted by a ball and cross. The church was consecrated in 1829. (
fn. 26) A parish was assigned out of St. Martin's, Birmingham, in 1834; parts of it were taken to form the parishes of Immanuel, Birmingham (1865), and St. Asaph, Birmingham (1869). A rectory was created in 1834, in the gift of the trustees of St. Martin's, Birmingham. (
fn. 27) The church, which had been refitted in 1893, (
fn. 28) was largely destroyed by enemy action in 1940, but the tower and the west porticos are still (1961) standing. In 1946 the benefice was joined with that of Immanuel, Birmingham, to form the united benefice of St. Thomas and Immanuel, part of the endowment being transferred to St. Matthew's, Perry Beeches. The two parishes were merged in 1939. (
fn. 29) A mission room in Ellis Street was licensed for public worship from 1908 to 1926; the chapel of the Accident (formerly Queen's) Hospital has been licensed since 1908 and the Church Army Hostel, Granville St., since 1958
From British History online