St Paul's Church, Hamstead

The church sits west of the A34 Walsall Road, near its junction with Old Walsall Road, on a hilltop site overlooking the suburb of Hamstead, a former mining village, and not far from the border of Birmingham and Sandwell.

Eventually funding was found for a permanent church and the foundation stone was laid on Friday 27 July 1891 by Augustus Gough-Calthorpe, 6th Baron Calthorpe.

[3] Pevsner and Wedgwood (1966) describe the building as "A pleasant country church in a Dec[orated] style".

[2] In 1894 a parish was assigned with land taken from the parishes of St Mary's Church, Handsworth and St John the Evangelist's Church, Perry Barr.

Erected by public subscription in December 1920, it commemorates 22 men of the parish who died in World War I.

St Paul's Church Hall
The mission church on an Ordnance Survey map of Staffordshire, sheet LXVIII.NE, published in 1886. It is located between Hamstead Colliery to the west and Hamstead Villa - both now also defunct - at the junctions of what are now Hamstead Road and Spouthouse Lane, and to the north of the Grand Junction Railway line and River Tame .
Hamstead War Memorial