St Gabriel's Church, Walsall facts for kids
Quick facts for kids St Gabriel's Church, Walsall |
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| Parish Church of St Gabriel, Walsall | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Denomination | Church of England |
| Churchmanship | Traditional Catholic |
| History | |
| Dedication | St Gabriel |
| Consecrated | 4 February 1939 |
| Architecture | |
| Architect(s) | Richard Twentyman |
| Style | Art deco |
| Administration | |
| Parish | St. Gabriel, Fullbrook, Walsall |
| Deanery | Walsall |
| Archdeaconry | Walsall |
| Episcopal area | Wolverhampton |
| Diocese | Lichfield |
| Province | Canterbury |
St Gabriel's Church is a Church of England parish church in Walsall, West Midlands. Its parish includes Fullbrook, Caldmore, Bescot, The Delves, Palfrey, and Tamebridge and Yew Tree.
History
The church of St Gabriel the Archangel, Fullbrook, originated in a mission founded in 1936 when a conventional district was formed out of the parishes of St. Matthew, Walsall, St. Michael, Caldmore, St. Mary, Palfrey, and St. Paul, Wood Green, Wednesbury. A curate-in-charge was appointed by the bishop of Lichfield and received a stipend of £300. (fn. 399) Services were at first held in the mission church of the Good Shepherd at Delves Green, transferred from St. Paul's parish. In 1938 a site in Walstead Road was acquired for the new church, which was consecrated in 1939 by Right Reverend Edward Woods, Bishop of Lichfield, on 4 February 1939. The cost of erection was met largely by a bequest from J. F. Laing, Vicar of St. Michael's Caldmore 1877-1921. Late in 1939 the district became a parish.
The living, at first a perpetual curacy and from 1969 a vicarage, has remained in the gift of the bishop of Lichfield.
The incumbent's house was in Broadway; the present house south-east of the church was built in 1956.
A mission church and hall, dedicated to the Annunciation, was built within the parish on the new Yew Tree estate.
St. Gabriel's was designed by Lavender & Twentyman of Wolverhampton. It is a red-brick building in a modern style and consists of chancel surmounted by tower, north Lady chapel, nave, and west baptistery; there is a gallery over the baptistery. At the west end the church is joined by a covered way to a hall, opened in 1971.
Clergy
Vicars who have served St Gabriel's
1935 - 1948 Fr A. Fraser
1948 - 1954 Fr J. McCullough
1954 - 1971 Fr S. Thomas
1972 - 2010 Fr T R H Coyne
2011 - present Rev Prebendary Mark McIntyre CMP SSC
Assistant Priests
1958 - 1961 Fr E Booth
1967 - 1970 Fr K Hill
1970 - 1973 Fr H Pascoe
1974 - 1977 Fr N Clapp
1977 - 1978 Fr C Marshall
1980 - 1983 Fr B Williams
1988 - 1990 Fr G Matthews
1990 Fr D Pearce
1995 - 2004 Fr W Poultney
2000 - 2003 Fr E Davies
2005 - 2010 Fr N Pierce
2013 - 2016 Fr S Oakes
2019 - Fr R Hume
