St Chad's Church, Rubery
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St Chad’s Church, Rubery is a Church of England parish church in Rubery, Worcestershire.
History
The church evolved in 1895 as a mission church from Holy Trinity Church, Lickey. The first building was a small wooden church. The wooden church comprised a nave only, with campanile tower at the west end, tiled with shingles, the roof with red and blue tiles. It accommodated 300 persons and cost £530. The architects were W. Jeffery Hopkins and A.B. Pinckney.{{cite news |author= |title=St. Chad’s Rubery |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000150/18951228/035/0005
|newspaper=Worcester Journal |location=Worcester |date=28 December 1895 |access-date=15 March 2015 }}
A parish was assigned out of Holy Trinity Church, Lickey in 1933.
The Second World War prevented progress on building a new church, but this was started in 1957 to designs by the architect Richard TwentymanRIBA Journal. Vol. 71. p 288 and completed in 1959. Nikolaus Pevsner describes the building as a fine Modernist example.The Buildings of England. Worcestershire. Nikolaus Pevsner. Penguin Books. {{ISBN|030011298X}} p. 90
Organ
An organ from St Margaret’s Church, Ladywood was transferred here when St Margaret’s Church closed. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.{{National Pipe Organ Register|D02367|accessdate=17 March 2015}}
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Category:Church of England church buildings in Worcestershire