St. Stephen’s, Selly Hill, was consecrated August 18, 1871, the first stone having been laid March 30, 1870.  The patrons are the Bishop and trustees; the living is valued at L200; it is a perpetual curacy, and the incumbent is the Rev. R. Stokes M.A.  Of the 300 sittings 100 are free.

St. Thomas’s, Holloway Head.—­First stone laid Oct. 2, 1826; consecrated Oct. 22, 1829, having cost L14,220.  This is the largest church in Birmingham, there being 2,600 sittings, of which 1,500 are free.  In the Chartist riots of 1839, the people tore up the railings round the churchyard to use as pikes.  The living (value L550) is in the gift of trustees, and is held by the Rev. T. Halstead, Rector and Surrogate.

St. Thomas-in-the-Moors, Cox Street, Balsall Heath.—­The church was commenced to be built, at the expense of the late William Sands Cox, Esq., in the year 1868, but on account of some quibble, legal or ecclesiastical, the building was stopped when three parts finished.  By his will Mr. Cox directed it to be completed, and left a small endowment.  This was added to by friends, and the consecration ceremony took place Aug. 14, 1883.  The church will accommodate about 600 persons.

St. Thomas the Martyr.—­Of this church, otherwise called the “Free Chapel,” which was richly endowed in 1350 (See “Memorials of Old Birmingham” by Toulmin Smith), and to which the Commissioners of Henry VIII., in 1545, said the inhabitants did “muche resorte,” there is not one stone left, and its very site is not known.

Stirchley Street School-Church was erected in 1863, at a cost of L1,200, and is used on Sunday and occasional weekday evenings.

Places Of Worship.—­Dissenters’.—­A hundred years ago the places of worship in Birmingham and its neighbourhood, other than the parish churches, could have been counted on one’s fingers, and even so late as 1841 not more than four dozen were found by the census enumerators in a radius of some miles from the Bull Ring.  At the present time conventicles and tabernacles, Bethels and Bethesdas, Mission Halls and Meeting Rooms, are so numerous that there is hardly a street away from the centre of the town but has one or more such buildings.  To give the history of half the meeting-places of the hundred-and-one different denominational bodies among us would fill a book, but notes of the principal Dissenting places of worship are annexed.

Antinomians.—­In 1810 the members of this sect had a chapel in Bartholomew Street, which was swept away by the L. and N.W.  Railway Co., when extending their line to New Street.