Church in Birmingham, England
Erdington Abbey Church (grid reference SP112922 Erdington ,Birmingham ,England , is the more usual name of thegrade II listed church of SaintsThomas andEdmund of Canterbury . It is the church of aRoman Catholic parish in theArchdiocese of Birmingham served by theRedemptorists . The abbey itself was the adjacent building, nowHighclare School .
Erdington Abbey church [ edit ] In 1847 Father Heneage built a chapel inErdington High Street, on the croft opposite the end of Station Lane.
Before this priests fromOscott College had said mass in a house on the High Street, but Catholics in Erdington are mainly indebted to the Rev.Daniel H. Haigh , founder of the Church of SS Thomas & Edmund of Canterbury. He laid thefoundation stone of the new church on 26 May 1848. The church was opened and consecrated byBishop Ullathorne on 11 June 1850. The church is an example of theGothic Revival .
The church was designed byCharles Hansom , who built the steeple of the church 117 ft (36 m) high, which is also the length of the building.[ 1] Augustus Pugin and made byHardman .
In 1876 Father Haigh handed over his church, parish and estate of 4 acres (16,000 m2 ) to theBenedictine monks fromBeuron inGermany , exiled for theirfaith from their own country during the"Kulturkampf " , theanti-Catholic and anti-clerical movement headed byBismarck .
The abbey was built on this land next to the church. Its building is also grade II listed.
Roman Catholic Redemptorists [ edit ] The Benedictine monks were later displaced a second time, as a result of problems experienced by the predominantly GermanBeuronese Congregation duringWorld War I (1914–18). After World War I, during which the community suffered aggravation, it was possible for the community to return to their homeland,[ 2] [ 3]
The parish came under the control of theRedemptorist order of priests in 1922, and is currently served by Fr. Elias Gweme CSsR - Rector and Parish Priest, Fr. Francis Dickinson CSsR, Fr. Isaac Davies CSsR, and Fr. Royston Price CSsR.
The attached cemetery containswar graves of three soldiers ofWorld War I and two soldiers and fourRoyal Air Force personnel ofWorld War II .[ 4]
^ Harris, Penelope, "The Architectural Achievement of Joseph Aloysius Hansom (1803-1882)", TheEdwin Mellen Press , 2010, pp.164-166,ISBN 0-7734-3851-3 ^ "Welcome to the Erdington Abbey Website", Erdington Abbey ^ Benedictine Order ,The Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement. I, Part 1, 1922, p. 97^ [1] CWGC Cemetery Record. Breakdown from casualty record. Date retrieved 10 February 2013.
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