Welcome, Join Us

Check out our calendar for full details of services.

 Join us at church week-by-week for:

• a welcoming all-age worshipping community drawn from the parish, the diocese and beyond
• famous for its long and venerable catholic tradition
• a breathtaking building - a spiritual powerhouse and a powerful landmark symbol of Christianity towering over the Stratford Road
• a Forward-in-Faith parish
• two churches - St Agatha's on Stratford Road and the more intimate St Barnabas on Ladypool Road
• the only English church to contain a relic of Saint Agatha

a visitor reports

On Saturday 7th April, a group of women who had never previously met gathered outside St Agatha's to participate in a three-hour adventure, exploring how the commodification and mythologising of breasts within our society - from bra shops to art galleries, from religion to sex - impacts on how we relate to our own breasts. The walk, commissioned  by Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery as part of their 'Coming Out' exhibition, and originally created with the support of Still Walking festival, was the brainchild of Claire Collison. Artist, writer, and breast cancer survivor, Claire designed the original walk for London, but certainly found plenty of relevant content for a Birmingham version, and a highlight of the tour was being given access to St Agatha’s relic. Claire would especially like to thank Priscilla Rainford, who was so welcoming, and provided such an informative introduction to Saint Agatha.

LINK TO BLOG -
https://writingbloomsbury.wordpress.com/2018/04/25/intimate-tour-of-breasts-birmingham-redux/

with the relic of our patron

Read more: Walking Tour starts at St Agathas