St Agnes' Church, Moseley

St Agnes’ Church stands in Moseley, a suburb of Birmingham. The building is a Grade II listed Anglican parish church designed by William Davis in the Decorated Gothic style. Construction began in 1883 and the church opened the following year. Its east window shows ‘Christ in Glory’, made by Ballantine and Gardiner of Edinburgh for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897. The west tower was finished in 1932 by Charles Bateman, and a lych-gate by James A. Swan was added in 1938. The interior features woodwork carved by Robert Pancheri of the Bromsgrove Guild, including panelling, choir stalls, pulpit, lectern, screens and doors installed in 1939. The church was hit by bombing in 1940 and reopened in March 1941 after temporary repairs. It belongs to the conservative evangelical tradition and has passed resolutions rejecting the ordination and leadership of women. The vicars since 1911 include Revd J.W. Pyddoke, Revd C.A.H. Going, Revd J.P. Wilkinson and Revd Stephen Beck. A three-manual pipe organ by William Hill & Sons, originally built for St Mark’s Church in Leicester in 1871, was moved here and opened in 1994. The tower contains two bells cast in 1921 by John Taylor of Loughborough. The church’s stained glass, woodwork and furnishings reflect its late 19th- and early 20th-century origins, set within a quiet churchyard in Moseley.