St Anne's Church, Birmingham
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Front Entrance
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 St Anne's Church
Location in the West Midlands
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| Coordinates: 52°28′20″N 1°53′03″W / 52.472335°N 1.884172°W | |
| OS grid reference | SP 07965 86051 |
| Location | Digbeth, Birmingham |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Website | www |
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| Founded | 1849 |
| Founder(s) | John Henry Newman |
| Dedication | Saint Anne |
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| Status | Active |
| Functional status | Parish church |
| Heritage designation | Grade A locally listed |
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| Style | Gothic Revival |
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| Deanery | Birmingham (Cathedral) |
| Archdiocese | Birmingham |
St Anne's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church on Alcester Street in Digbeth, part of the city centre of Birmingham. It was founded by Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman in 1849. It was moved to a new building in 1884 designed by London architects Albert Vicars and John O'Neill, who also designed St Hugh's Church in Lincoln, and helped design St Peter's Cathedral in Belfast.
The building is Grade A locally listed.
In 1847, John Henry Newman came back from Rome to Birmingham after getting permission from Pope Pius IX to create an Oratory of Saint Philip Neri in England. In 1849, he had gathered a group of followers and they initially founded the church in an old gin distillery in Deritend. The area contained poor housing, with many back-to-back rows of houses, intermixed with industry and suffering the social conditions that the country sought to remove decades later. The nature of the housing meant that it was mainly occupied by migrants, in this case workers from Ireland.
In 1852, John Henry Newman took his community to Edgbaston in Birmingham when construction of the Birmingham Oratory was completed. St Anne's Church continued, and was administered by the Archdiocese of Birmingham.
The Irish community continued to increase in Birmingham and Catholic churches were built to accommodate the expanding congregations. St Catherine of Siena Church was built on the Horse Fair in 1874 and St Francis of Assisi church was built in Handsworth in 1894.
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