St Gabriel's Church, Walsall

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.

St Gabriel's Church, Walsall
Parish Church of St Gabriel, Walsall
CountryUnited Kingdom
DenominationChurch of England
ChurchmanshipTraditional Catholic
Websitewww.stgabrielschurchfullbrook.com
History
DedicationSt Gabriel
Consecrated4 February 1939
Architecture
Architect(s)Richard Twentyman
StyleArt deco
Administration
ParishSt. Gabriel, Fullbrook, Walsall
DeaneryWalsall
ArchdeaconryWalsall
Episcopal areaWolverhampton
DioceseLichfield
ProvinceCanterbury
Clergy
Vicar(s)Fr Mark McIntyre CMP SSC
Assistant priest(s)Fr Richard Hume
The Church of St Gabriel the Archangel, Fullbrook, Walsall

History

St Gabriel's Nave and Sanctuary

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

The Lady Chapel of St Gabriel's

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

References

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/staffs/vol17/pp226-239

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