[3] The site for the church was given by Augustus Gough-Calthorpe, 6th Baron Calthorpe.

The church cost £8,000 with the parishioners contributing £2,000 and the Misses Stokes of the Hawthorns, Edgbaston, the balance.

The church was consecrated by the Bishop of Worcester[4] Rt.

It was a daughter parish to St Bartholomew's Church, Edgbaston.

The first organ in the church was built by J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd in 1898.