The church, said to have been modelled on King's College Chapel, Cambridge, was consecrated on 23 January 1823 by James Cornwallis the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry.

The soffit has a lierne pattern of ribs over the large decorated west window, with tracery of cast iron.

The porch proper is shallow and contained within the recess, a tripartite composition with an ogee arch to the central doorway with an ornate finial.

The coved ceiling still partially remains but the decoration of a high standard for the period, has been stripped and a floor inserted.

[6] Enraght was an Anglo-Catholic who burnt candles and incense, used wafers at the Eucharist, wore a chasuble and alb and mixed water with the communion wine.

These were not the normal practices of the Church of England at the time and he fell foul of the radical Protestant reaction against ‘ritualism’.

He was convicted under the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874, a new law pushed through the Commons by influential Evangelicals in a bid to put an end to ‘Romish’ practices in the church, and finally imprisoned at Warwick.

[7][8] Enraght's licence was eventually revoked and he was replaced in 1883 by the Rev Alan H Watts, against the wishes of the congregation and an account of their displeasure was reported in London Evening News for 12 March 1883.

"A scene of an extraordinary nature was witnessed at Holy Trinity Church, Bordesley, Birmingham, yesterday morning, owing to the attempt of the Rev.

In the evening the church was packed in every part, and the new vicar was slightly hissed as he entered the chancel from the vestry.

In autumn 1875 a group of cricketers from the church formed an Association football team, Small Heath Alliance, which became Birmingham City F.C.