The Cotteridge Church, Kings Norton
The Cotteridge Church, Kings Norton
The Cotteridge Church on Pershore Road South is a Local Ecumenical Partnership of the Church of England, the Methodist Church and the United Reformed Church in Cotteridge, Kings Norton, Birmingham.
- Location
- Kings Norton, West Midlands
- Country
- England
- County
- West Midlands
- City / town
- Kings Norton
- Address
- Pershore Road South, Kings Norton, West Midlands, B30 3EJ
- Postcode
- B30 3EJ
- Built
- Wesleyan chapel opened 1902; enlarged mid-1980s as The Cotteridge Church after the 1985–86 ecumenical union
- Denomination
- Local Ecumenical Partnership
- Diocese
- Birmingham
- Parish
- The Cotteridge Church
- Opening hours
- The church is open Monday to Saturday (not public holidays) from 9am to 2pm. Lunch is available Monday to Friday 12noon to 1pm. The B30 Foodbank runs on Tuesday and Friday until 2.30pm to 4.30pm. Various groups meet at the Church during weekday evenings.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas
Overview
The present building began as a Wesleyan chapel opened in 1902, replacing a Cotteridge chapel registered in 1894. St Agnes’ Church of England, a mission of St Nicolas, Kings Norton, from 1898, was built nearby in 1902–03 to designs by Cossins, Peacock and Bewlay and consecrated in 1903; a parish was assigned in 1916. A Congregational (later URC) church stood on Watford Road.
In 1985–86 the three congregations united as The Cotteridge Church. St Agnes and the URC church were demolished for a supermarket and sheltered housing; the Methodist building was extended and remains in use at the junction of Pershore Road South with Middleton Hall Road and Watford Road. The partnership is in the Church of England Diocese of Birmingham. The building is not on the National Heritage List for England.