St. Martin’s Church — Attraction in Birmingham

Really nice old church in the city center, close to the new The Bull shopping centre, worth a visit if you’re there. The present Victorian church was built on the site of a 13th century predecessor which was documented in 1263. The church was enlarged in medieval times. In 1547, although no record is kept to indicate when the first clock appears in Birmingham, during this year the King's Commissioners report that the Guild of the Holy Cross are responsible "for keeping the Clocke and the Chyme" at a cost of four shillings and four pence a year at St Martin's Church. The exterior is built of rockfaced Grimshill stone. The interior is of sandstone with an open timber roof, which shows the influence of the great hammerbeam roof of Westminster Hall. The beams are decorated with fine tracery and end in large carvings of angels. One of the jewels you can see is in the south transept: a Burne-Jones window, made by William Morris in 1875. This window was taken down for safe keeping the day before a World War II bomb dropped beside the church on 10 April 1941, destroying all remaining windows. Represented are the four evangelists; underneath them, 2 great prophets: Moyses, and Elias; and Kings Davis and Salomon. In the centre, Jesus as Rex Omnipotens, and beneath the holy priest Melchisedec. To complete this fabulous work: angels above and some scenes of the Virgin’s and Christ’s life: Annunciation, Epiphany, and Passion. The pulpit has seen some historic moments. Elizabeth Cadbury, the president of the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches, preached here: it was the first known time that a woman had spoken from a Church of England pulpit. In 1969, the Archbishop of Birmingham, Patrick Dwyer, preached on this spot, making him the first Roman Catholic to preach in the Church of England since the...

It's rather unusual for a house of the holy to be named after a geographical location rather than a person but St. Martin in the Moo falls into that category. Lots of people have sunned themselves in St. Martins in the Scilly Isles but it ain't named after that. More have bathed in even more sun in St. Martins in the Caribbean but it ain't that one either. You have to go to all the way to the Bay of Bengal to find the St. Martins in question. Annexed by Brittain in the 1900's before becoming part of Pakistan, then Bangladesh, St. Martins is now home to a population of 8,000, mostly fisherpeople and farmers. The island 🏝 is 9km south of Cox's Bazar-Teknaf peninsula and covers an area if only 3 square kilometres. It's a marine protected area and has a diverse marine life. It's a unique habitat for sea sponges. So why name a church ⛪️ after St. Martins? It's the only location in the world to have an underwater blue plaque, marking the house where SpongeBob...

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