Temple Balsall, West Midlands (147)

This is a very big church as well and sort of built on a hill. You come in at the bottom and there are pews and steps up to the altar at the top. It’s associated with the Knights Templar who used to have a house nearby.

The church was restored by Mr Giblet Scott in the 1800s. [The church was heavily restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1849, Big Ted.]

 

This is the church that used to be in Warwickshire but then was magically moved to the West Midlands. [The West Midlands metropolitan county appeared in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, to cover parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. It embraces seven metropolitan boroughs: the cities of Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton, and the boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull and Walsall, Big Ted]