St Barbara's Church, Earlsdon

St Barbara's Church, Earlsdon
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52°23′50″N 1°32′20″W / 52.3971°N 1.5389°W / 52.3971; -1.5389
CountryEngland
DenominationAnglican
Websitehttps://stbarbaras.com/
History
StatusActive
Founder(s)Sir Alfred Herbert
Consecrated26 Sep 1931
Architecture
Architect(s)Henry Paley
Years built1930-1931
Construction cost£17,644
Administration
DioceseCoventry
ArchdeaconryCoventry
DeaneryCoventry, South
ParishSt Barbara's, Earlsdon

St Barbara's Church is in Earlsdon, a suburb of Coventry, West Midlands, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Coventry, South, the archdeaconry of Coventry, and the diocese of Coventry.[1] The church was built in 1930–31 to replace a smaller church nearby. It was designed by Henry Paley of the Lancaster architects Austin and Paley, with a local man, Herbert Jackson, acting as clerk of works and consulting architect.[2][3]

The foundation stone was laid on 28 September 1930 by Sir Alfred Herbert, a local industrialist, and the church was consecrated on 26 September 1931. Due to a lack of finance, the church was never completed, the missing parts being the western 2½ bays, two porches, a baptistry and a bell turret.[2][3] The total cost of the church was £17,644 (equivalent to £1,510,000 in 2023),[4] of which £975 was donated by Sir Alfred to build the Lady Chapel as a memorial to his late second wife Florence (m. 1913, d. 1930), widow of Lieutenant-Colonel H. E. E. Lucas.[2][5]

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References

  1. ^ Earlsdon - St. Barbara's, Earlsdon, Church of England, retrieved 29 August 2012
  2. ^ a b c Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English Heritage, pp. 183, 253, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8
  3. ^ a b History of St Barbara's Church, St Barbara's, Earlsdon, retrieved 29 August 2012
  4. ^ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
  5. ^ "Herbert, Sir Alfred Edward (1866–1957), machine tool manufacturer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/48619. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 18 October 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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