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The Church of the Messiah, Birmingham was a Unitarian church on Broad Street, Birmingham. ==History== The foundation of this congregation goes back to 1692 when the first meeting house was built, the Lower Meeting House, Deritend in Birmingham. When they outgrew this in 1732, they moved into a new chapel in Moor Street. By the 1860s this was also too small so a new church was commissioned. The Moor Street chapel was sold to a Roman Catholic congregation The church was built to designs by the architect John Jones Bateman. The foundation stone was laid on 11 August 1860 and the church opened on 1 January 1862,〔〔Birmingham Journal - Saturday 4 January 1862〕 at a cost of £10,000. It was unusual in that it straddled the Birmingham Canal forming part of the Broad Street canal tunnel. The Church was built by Branson and Gwyther. Articles of agreement between (1) George Branson and Edwin Gwyther both of Birmingham in the County of Warwick Builders hereinafter and in the Conditions and Specification referred to as the "Contractors" of the one part and (2) Timothy Kenrick of Edgbaston. Letters kept at Birmingham City Archives include Contract for the building of the Church of the Messiah, with specification and particulars, conditions and schedule of drawings and detailed descriptions of proposed works. Early members of the congregation included members of the Martineau family who would produce many Birmingham Lord Mayors throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Joseph Chamberlain,〔 and his son Neville Chamberlain, prime minister (1937–1940), attended services in this church. The church was demolished in 1978.〔 The congregational moved to a new building at Five Ways which opened on 1 September 1973. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Church of the Messiah, Birmingham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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