Encounter Church
| Selly Oak Elim Church | |
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.jpg) Selly Oak Elim Church | |
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| 52°26′30.47″N 1°55′53.04″W / 52.4417972°N 1.9314000°W | |
| Location | Bournbrook |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Elim Pentecostal Church |
| Previous denomination | Church of England |
| Website | sellyelim.org |
| History | |
| Former name(s) | St Wulstan’s Church, Bournbrook |
| Consecrated | 1905 |
| Architecture | |
| Architect(s) | John Edward Knight Cutts and John Priston Cutts |
| Completed | 1905 |
| Construction cost | £6,000 |
| Specifications | |
| Capacity | 713 people |
Selly Oak Elim Church was formerly St Wulstan’s, a parish church of the Church of England in the Bournbrook district of Birmingham[1], but which is now an Elim Pentecostal Church.
History
St Wulstan’s Church, Bournbrook, was established as a mission church to St Mary's Church, Selly Oak, in 1893.[2] Countess Beauchamp laid a foundation stone for a new church building in Exeter Road on 19 January 1905,[3] and which declared that it was being built "To the Glory of God and for the benefit of the People of Bournbrook".[4] The church was built of red and blue brick by the architects J. E. K. Cutts (1847-1938) and John Priston Cutts (1854-1935), and was consecrated by the Bishop of Birmingham on 6 October 1906.[5]
In 1980 the parish of St Wulstan’s, Bournbrook, merged with St Stephen's Church, Selly Park, and the Exeter Road building was swapped with Selly Oak Elim Church.
References
- ^ The Buildings of England. Warwickshire. Nikolaus Pevsner. Penguin Books. ISBN 0140710310 p.202
- ^ [1]
- ^ "On Saturday afternoon..." Tamworth Herald. Tamworth. 13 October 1906. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
- ^ St Wulstan's Church, Bournbrook: Jubilee Day Programme (1956)
- ^ "On Saturday morning..." Lichfield Mercury. Lichfield. 12 October 1906. Retrieved 3 June 2015.