| Description | DRB 113: Register of services for St James, Bentley Heath, 1929-1959.
DRB 163: Registers of baptisms (1895-1995), marriages (1902-2005), banns (1941-1989), confirmations (1941-2005), services, (1890-1991), including some for St James, Bentley Heath; incumbents' files (20th century); Churchwardens' records, including quinqennial reports (1979-2002), insurance file and Offertory Book (1930-1935); vestry minutes (1916-1989), General Committee (for enlargement of church, 1894-1899); PCC minutes (1920-2000, with gaps), files, committee minutes, papers for erection of the new church hall at Dorridge (1967-1975) and St James' Church Project at Bentley Heath (1998-2001), electoral rolls, accounts; Junior Church minutes and papers; CMS papers; printed items including the parish magazine 'The Dorridge Vine' (1963-1997).
DRB 169: Register of baptisms (1891-1911), register of marriages, 2005-2009, banns register 1902-1941, minutes and reports of Parish Church Council 1994-2003, copies of the newsheets 'Signpost' 1997-2000, property records, papers relating to St James' Church Project at Bentley Heath (1998-2001) and other parish records
DRB 178 Register of marriages, 2009-2013, PCC Minutes, 2004-2008, parish magazines: Parish Matters 2005-2008 and Alive!, 2004-2008 and other printed material
DRB 188: Photographs of the church before development
DRB 202: Register of marriages (2013-2019), APCM Minutes (2009-2018), PCC Minutes (2009-2018), Church Log Book (St.James), Ladies Fellowship Minutes (1960-1991), Mission Beyond the Parish Minutes (2005-2017), Shirley Deanery file, Organ specification paperwork, Faculty and Judgment re. demolition and rebuilding of St. Philips (2016), Centenary brochures and photo album, Church painting and other parish related material. |
| AdminHistory | St Philip was built in 1878 as a chapel of ease in the parish of Packwood. In 1895 it was transferred to the parish of Knowle, and was made into a separate parish (formed out of parts of Solihull, Nuthurst & Hockley Heath, Packwood and Knowle parishes) in 1967. Bentley Heath was a 'school-church' built in 1870 in the parish of Solihull; it was transferred to Dorridge, then a conventional district, in 1940. |