[1] The foundation stone for the new church was laid on 21 April 1937 by Councillor R. Canning J.P.[2] It took its dedication from St Bartholomew’s Church, Birmingham which was closed in 1937 because of its failing structure.

It was designed in a Romanesque style to designs by the architect Samuel Nathaniel Cooke and consecrated by the Bishop of Birmingham Ernest Barnes on 7 May 1938.

[3] In 1998 the church suffered an arson, and in 2006 the building was demolished.

The parish is worshipping in temporary premises until a replacement church can be constructed.

[4] The church contained an organ dating from 1888 by Walter James Bird which had originally been installed in St Bartholomew’s Church, Birmingham.