Perry Barr, Staffordshire

Description
Perry Barr, formerly a hamlet in Handsworth parish, Staffordshire, but constituted a separate civil parish in 1894 by Order in Council. It lies on Icknield Street and the river Tame, adjacent to Warwickshire, 3 miles N of Birmingham, and has stations (Perry Barr and Great Barr) on the Birmingham, Walsall, and Wolverhampton section of the L. & N.W.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) under Birmingham. The literary and scientific institute includes reading-rooms, library, class-rooms, and lecture-hall, and at the back there is a recreation ground. The ecclesiastical parish contains also Perry village, and was constituted in 1862. Population, 3377. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. Perry Hall was rebuilt by the Hon. F. Gough in the Tudor style, and belongs now to The Gough-Calthorpe family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; gross value, £370. The church was built in 1833, and enlarged in 1890-94, is a fine cruciform structure with a tower. Christ Church was erected in 1862 as a chapel of ease. All Saints Church was erected in 1893 in the hamlet of Scott. There is a Wesleyan chapel. A Roman Catholic convent and orphanage are at Mary Vale.