St John's Church, Ladywood
| Church of St. John the Evangelist, Ladywood | |
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Church of St. John the Evangelist, Ladywood
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Denomination | Church of England |
| Churchmanship | Broad Church |
| Website | www.stjohnpeter.org.uk/ |
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| Dedication | St. John the Evangelist |
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| Diocese | Birmingham |
| Province | Canterbury |
Coordinates: 52°28′39″N 1°55′39″W / 52.47750°N 1.92750°W
The Church of St. John the Evangelist and St. Peter is a Grade II listedChurch of England church of Ladywood, Birmingham, England.
The Church of St. John the Evangelist was built to designs by the architect Samuel Sanders Teulon between 1852 and 1854. It was founded as a mission from St Martin in the Bull Ring and the rector of St. Martin’s was patron of the living.
The governors of the King Edward VI Schools had also agreed to allow a site on their property. The site was on what was then known as Ladywood Green, a 17th-century Great Plague burial ground. Frederick Gough, 4th Baron Calthorpe laid the foundation stone on 28 September 1852, and the church was consecrated by Henry Pepys, the Bishop of Worcester, on 15 March 1854. The cost of the building was £6,000 (equivalent to equivalent to £507,892 in 2015). It was a commissioners' church as a grant of £247 (equivalent to £20,908 in 2015) was given towards its cost by the Church Building Society.
In 1876 part of the parish was taken to form the new parish of St Margaret’s Church, Ladywood.
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