St. Mary's Church, Moseley
| St. Mary's Church, Moseley | |
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| 52°26′47″N 1°53′12″W / 52.4464°N 1.8866°WCoordinates: 52°26′47″N 1°53′12″W / 52.4464°N 1.8866°W | |
| Denomination | Church of England |
| Churchmanship | Liberal Catholic |
| Website | [1] |
| History | |
| Dedication | St. Mary |
| Administration | |
| Parish | Moseley |
| Diocese | Birmingham |
| Province | Canterbury |
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| Vicar(s) | Revd Duncan Strathie and Revd Hazel White (Associate Vicar) |
| Honorary priest(s) | Revd Prof Frank Berry and Revd Caroline George |
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| Organist/Director of music | Mick Perrier |
St Mary's Church, Moseley is a Grade II listedparish church in the Church of England located in Moseley, Birmingham. It is now part of a united benefice with St Anne's Church, Moseley. The War Memorial in the South-East corner of the Churchyard, facing Oxford Road, is unusual in that it depicts Christ upon the cross in carved stone. The War Memorial has achieved its own Grade II listing.
A religious building dedicated to St Mary has been at the heart of Moseley for over 600 years. The foundation of the church for public worship is taken to be the Papal Mandate from Pope Innocent VII dated 2 February 1405 by which he instructed the Bishop of Worcester to allow the local parishioners to have mass and other divine offices celebrated by fit priests in the chapel of St Mary Moseley. At that time, the Parish Church was at Bromsgrove and that church was said to be so distant that access at certain times of the year was impossible, without danger, especially for old men and pregnant women and other weak persons, on account of the distance and floods.
Earlier references to Elizabeth of York, the wife of King Henry VII, giving land in October 1494, upon which to build a church, are now found to be mistaken. She did not become the Lord of Manor until May 1495 on the death of her grandmother Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, who had been given the Manor for life by her son, Edward IV. The land given by Cicely to the trustees of the existing chapel of the Blessed Mary, in return for a red rose every midsummer's day, was not for any particular purpose and was entirely covered with water which would not have been a good place to build anything! Perhaps this was the origin of Ladypool.
In the 5th year of the reign of King Henry VIII (1513–1514), a tower was built using 48 cart loads of stone from the walls of the parsonage at Bromsgrove. In addition, repairs were done to the chapel and bells were bought.
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