Churches

Until 1704 St. Edburgha's Church had been the only one in the parish, more than five difficult miles away for the folk of Yardley Wood; in that year Job Marston's Chapel was consecrated opposite Hall Green Hall. It was to remain Marston Chapel until 1907 despite enlargement in 1860 to accommodate the increased congregation, because a new parish church had been provided by Sarah Taylor's beneficence on a Yardley Wood Common site beside the canal bridge. This was and is Christ Church, in Early English style, consecrated in 1849; its parish included the southern third of Yardley and a part of Kings Norton.

In '78 an iron mission chapel was opened on Sparkhill. This was replaced by a brick building in '89 which was enparished as St. John's in '94 prior to enlargement. Meanwhile in '84 a chapel-of-ease to St. Mary's (Moseley) had been built on Wake Green just inside Yardley. This is St. Agnes', later given a parish which took in part of our Quarter; its tower was not complete until 1932. St. Christopher's (Springfield) was consecrated as a chapel-of-ease to St. John's in 1907, receiving its own parish four years later. Holy Cross (Billesley) was a parish church from its opening in '37.

When a new church was opened in Highters Heath, Christ Church lost that part of its parish which lay beyond the Yardley boundary.

The English Martyrs R. C. Church began as a mission in 1908. Three years later the school at the top of Evelyn Road opened, its hall serving as a chapel until the Byzantine church alongside was completed in 1923. Similarly Our Lady of Lourdes School hall was used from its building in '35 until the church was opened in 1958. Nonconformist chapels were built as follows :- Slade Road 1888, Church of Christ Sparkhill 1893, Springfield Road 1916, Brook Lane Baptist Chapel & Trittiford Road Methodist Church 1928, Stratford Road Springfield 1936, and five later ones.