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St John’s Road
Sparkhill
Birmingham
B11 4RG
Development
We are deeply committed to the people of Sparkhill and are developing our resources to better serve the local community in the 21st century.
Over £100,000 worth of renovation work has recently been undertaken creating new community facilities at the west end of the church building, these are being used extensively by the Charity Narthex Sparkhill which is based at St John's.
These renovated rooms together with our hall on St John's Road provide some of the best community facilities in Sparkhill.
A total reroofing of the church (including insulating) costing over £425,000 was undertaken during 2010 and 2011 with the help of English Heritage, grant giving organisations and sacrifial giving by the congregation.
Phase 1 reroofing in pictures
Work on phase 1 of the roof replacement gets under way with the start of the erection of scaffolding. Week 1 (8-12th March 2010)
Insulation being installed
overview of north side of church at week 9
Clerestory window
work started on replacing the tiles on 7th May
Internal scaffolding going up 19th May
Even the Chimney gets a make-over 11th June
Work starts on the south roof 11th June
abseiling to fix birdnetting on tower 25th June
roofer in safety harness high on the south transept 2nd July
yet more new scaffolding 28th July
a high level view 30th July
Pete the Builder 30th July
High level view of carpenter repairing clerestory
window in the main roof 30th July
Clerestory window under repair 30th July
Phase 2 of the reroofing gets under way in October 2010
Scaffolding going up on the north side of the church in preparation for stage 2 of the reroofing.
Work gets underway on the north transept roof 27th October
Many thanks to the following Trusts, businesses
and organisations who have kindly contributed to
the roof work.
Phase 1
Allchurches Trust Limited
Bernard Piggott Trust
Bewley Charitable Trust
Cliff Richard Fan Club Birmingham Meeting House
Cook & Wolstenholme Charitable Trust
Cornerstone (National Churches Trust)
Dorothy & Olive Pratt Charitable Trust
English Heritage
Garfield Weston Foundation
George Henry Collins Charity
Greet & District Residents
Grimmitt Trust
Harry Payne Trust
Indestructible Paint
Jarman Charitable Trust
Lady Neville Charity
Manifold Trust
SITA
Sparkhill Trust
Stephen Clark 1957 Charitable Trust
William Adlington Cadbury Charitable Trust
Wilmcote Charitrust
Phase 2
Alan Evans Memorial Trust
Allchurches Trust Limited
Cornerstone (National Churches Trust)
Dorothy & Olive Pratt Charitable Trust
Douglas Turner Trust
English Heritage
George Fentham Birmingham Charity
Grimmitt Trust
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Trust
Stephen Clark 1957 Charitable Trust
Next Steps
Our next development is the creation of an Emergency Exit to our Church Hall. we have all the necassary permissions in place and are presently fundraising for this work.
We are also preparing plans and are in consultion about the reordering of the inside of the church to enhance our worship space and create further community facilities.
