Here they remained till 1830, when they removed to Summer Lane, where a commodious church, large schools, and minister’s house had been erected for them.  In 1875 the congregation removed to their present location in Wretham Road, where a handsome church has been built, at a cost of nearly L8,000, to accommodate 500 persons, with schools in the rear for as many children.  The old chapel in Summer Lane has been turned into a Clubhouse, and the schools attached to it made over to the School Board.  The New Church’s new church, like many other modern-built places for Dissenting worship, has tower and spire, the height being 116ft.

Presbyterians.—­It took a long time for all the nice distinctive differences of dissenting belief to manifest themselves before the public got used to Unitarianism, Congregationalism, and all the other isms into which Nonconformity has divided itself.  When Birmingham was as a city of refuge for the many clergymen who would not accept the Act of Uniformity, it was deemed right to issue unto them licenses for preaching, and before the first Baptist chapel, or the New Meeting, or the Old Meeting, or the old Old Meeting (erected in 1689), were built, we find (1672) that one Samuel Willis, styling himself a minister of the Presbyterian persuasion, applied for preaching licenses for the school-house, and for the houses of John Wall, and Joseph Robinson, and Samuel Taylor, and Samuel Dooley, and John Hunt, all the same being in Birmingham; and William Fincher, another “minister of the Presbyterian persuasion,” asked for licenses to preach in the house of Richard Yarnald, in Birmingham, his own house, and in the houses of Thomas Gisboon, William Wheeley, John Pemberton, and Richard Careless, in Birmingham, and in the house of Mrs. Yarrington, on Bowdswell Heath.  In Bradford’s map (1751) Carr’s Lane chapel is put as a “Presbiterian chapel,” the New Meeting Street building close by being called “Presbiterian Meeting.”  It was of this “Presbiterian Chapel” in Carr’s Lane that Hutton wrote when he said it was the road to heaven, but that its surroundings indicated a very different route.  Perhaps it was due to these surroundings that the attendants at Carr’s Lane came by degrees to be called Independents and the New Meeting Street folks Unitarians, for both after a time ceased to be known as Presbyterians.  The Scotch Church, or, as it is sometimes styled, the Presbyterian Church of England, is not a large body in Birmingham, having but three places of worship.  The first Presbytery held in this town was on July 6, 1847; the foundation-stone of the Church in Broad Street was laid July 24, 1848; the Church at Camp Hill was opened June 3, 1869; and the one in New John Street West was began July 4, 1856, and opened June 19, 1857.

Salvation Army.—­The invasion of Birmingham by the soldiers of the Salvation Army was accomplished in the autumn of 1882, the General (Mr. Booth) putting in an appearance March 18, 1883.  They have several rendezvous in the town, one of the principal being in Farm Street, from whence the “soldiers” frequently sally out, with drums beating and colours flying, much to their own glorification and other people’s annoyance.