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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"
lang="EN-GB">WEOLEY</span></b><b><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-GB"> CASTLE</span></b><b><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-GB"> –
St.Gabriel, Shenley Lane</span></b><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"
lang="EN-GB">The Corporation
housing development at Weoley Castle was laid out in the 1930s
and St.Gabriel’s
was built in 1933-4 to provide church accommodation for the new
estate, a site
for a new church at Northfield having been provided under a
bequest in the will
of James Goddington Ledsam in whose memory the church was built.
The foundation
stone was laid by Mrs. Neville Chamberlain on 9 September 1933
and a new parish
was assigned from Northfield
and Selly Oak in the same year. The consecration took place on </span><span
lang="EN-GB">30 June 1934. E.F. Reynolds was the architect, and
the church is a
plain rectangular brick building in the Romanesque style.</span><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:
Tahoma" lang="EN-GB">The church was originally intended to have
a tower, but this was never
built. There was no bell here until 1957 when the present
enclosed bell turret
was erected over the south porch to contain a bell presented to
St.Gabriel’s by
the City of Birmingham Parks Department. The bell is hung ‘dead’
by its canons from
a pair of steel beams and clocked by a rope attached to the
clapper. </span></p>
<h3><span lang="EN-GB">Bell</span><span style="mso-tab-count:4">
</span><span lang="EN-GB">Inscription</span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"
lang="EN-GB">1.<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>(<i>blank</i>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"
lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><i>Waist</i>:
“CHARLES CARR” / SMETHWICK. / 1895</span></p>
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<h4 style="text-align:left" align="left"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-GB">Bell</span><span
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<h4 style="text-align:center" align="center"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma" lang="EN-GB">Diameter</span></h4>
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align="center"><b><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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Carr, 1895</span></p>
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lang="EN-GB">2:2-2:3:2</span></p>
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lang="EN-GB">F sharp</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"
lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"
lang="EN-GB">The
bell came from the chapel at Lodge Hill Cemetery
at Selly Oak (<i>q.v.</i>), consecrated on 24 June 1895. It was
hung here in
1957 in a turret designed by Cyril A Hughes of Swansea,
architect, whose brother was churchwarden at Weoley Castle
at the time. A faculty for the turret and bell was granted on 6
March 1957.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma"
lang="EN-GB">Visited</span></i></b><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-GB">: CJP 28 July
and (ladders) 7
August 1988</span></p>
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