Status: Ecclesiastical Parish
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
Parish registers: 1732
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1774
Nonconformists include: Independents and Wesleyans
Parishes adjacent to Smethwick
- Harborne
- Halesowen
- Birmingham All Saints
- North Harborne Holy Trinity
- Birmingham St Martin
- Edgbaston St Bartholomew
Historical Descriptions
The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales 1851
Smethwick, a chapelry in the parish of Harborne, county of Stafford; 3 miles west by north of Birmingham. Living, a perpetual curacy, a peculiar of the dean and chapter of Lichfield, in the patronage of trustees. Trinity church is also a perpetual curacy. The Independents and Methodists have places of worship here. The chapelry is intersected by the Birmingham canal, on the banks of which is a large iron-foundry. There are also bar, rod, and sheet iron works, and a soap and red lead manufactory, besides a refinery belonging to the Smethwiek brass company. Houses 452. Pop., in 1801, 1,097; in 1831, 2,676. Other returns with the parish.
Source: The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales; A Fullarton & Co. Glasgow; 1851
Directories
Smethwick Trades Directory 1861
Administration
- County: Staffordshire
- Civil Registration District: Kings Norton
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield
- Diocese: Lichfield
- Rural Deanery: West Bromwich
- Poor Law Union: Kings Norton
- Hundred: South Offlow
- Province: Canterbury