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Salter Street and St Patricks
Salter Street is the name of an area rather than of a village or hamlet; and is first
mentioned in Beighton's Map of Warwickshire (1722-5). At that time John Salter was living
at the old moated farmhouse now known as Salter Street Farm (the residence of Mr. TA
Moakes) and there can be little doubt that the lane leading to his house became
"Salter's Street." |
Though John Salter does
not appear to have been a native of Tanworth, he handed his name down to posterity at both
ends of the parish. In 1707 he was Churchwarden, and during his term of office managed to
get his name engraved on one of the new bells and his initials on another. He died in
1729, and with the burial of his widow ten years later, the name finally disappears from
the Registers, having only made its first appearance there in 1693. However, more than a
century after the death of John Salter, his name was preserved for ever by being given to
the newly created Parish of Salter Street.
Early last century the inhabitants of this part of Tanworth Parish, known for
administrative purposes as the Heath Side, began to wish for a church less remote than the
Parish Church, which for some of them was five or six miles distant. |
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Early last
century the inhabitants of this part of Tanworth Parish, known for administrative purposes
as the Heath Side, began to wish for a church less remote than the Parish Church, which
for some of them was five or six miles distant.
The funds required became available in an unusual manner. In 1793, the Stratford Canal had
been cut through this part of the parish, and in 1825 the Canal Company made a reservoir
at Earlswood for the purpose of feeding the canal. To do this, they took fifty-one acres
of Earlswood Common, then not enclosed, for which they paid
£969 8s.9p. To the Churchwardens of Tanworth, Thomas Burman, of
Lady Lane, and Insull Burman, of Hill Farm, as provided for by Act of Parliament, the
money to. Be held in trust by the Churchwardens for the needs of the parish.
On the 9th October, 1827, Isaac Burman and Thomas Burman, of Lady Lane, who were then
Churchwardens of Tanworth, convened a meeting in order to determine what use should be
made of the money in their possession. The meeting decided that a chapel should be built
and endowed, at the Northern end of the Parish, and proceeded to appoint trustees
"for the purpose of directing and determining all matters connected with the
erection, maintaining and endowment of the said intended chapel, and of the money;
property and funds which might from time to time be received for the use of the
same." No layman was eligible to serve as a trustee who was not in possession of a
freehold estate situate in the Parish of Tanworth of the clear yearly value of £50 at the
least, and he must also be a resident in the Parish. The following trustees were then
elected:
The patron of the Vicarage of Tanworth for the time being, the Vicar of Tanworth for the
time being, the Lord of the Manor of Tanworth for the time being, the Churchwardens of
Tanworth, Lord Aston, the Rev. Charles Curtis, the Rev. Thomas Blyth, Rev. John Ellis,
Rev. Poyntz Stewart Ward, the Rev. Thomas Dolben, John Burman of Light Hall, Thomas Burman
senior, John Beach, Poole Field, John Burman of Waring's Green, James Heynes, John Horton,
Thomas Burman of Lady Lane, Isaac Burman, and William Field.
The trustees do not appear to have hurried the building of the chapel, and an old story
says that the powers of darkness were against them. The story is the same which we have
heard with reference to various old churches, but never, I think, of such a modem
building, viz., that a piece of land was selected on the opposite side of the road to the
site eventually chosen, but that the devil would have none of it, removing the materials
as often as they were placed there, so that the trustees were forced to accede to his
wishes, and choose another spot. However that may be, a piece of land was purchased from
Miss Heynes, and the chapel built where the present church stands. It was completed in
1840, by which time several of the original trustees were dead, the Rev. Archer Clive
(Rector of Solihull, and grandson of the last Lord Archer) being elected in place of the
late Rev. Charles Curtis; the Rev. Theodore John Cartwright, in place of the late Rev.
Thomas Blyth; the Rev. George Tyndallt in place of the late Rev. Thomas Dolben Dolben; and
Thomas Burman of Beaumonts (later of Waring's Green) in place of the late John Burman of
Light Hall. , Jonathan Heynes was also elected a trustee in the place of Isaac Burman, who
had gone to reside at Yardley Wood.
In 1843 the District Chapelry of Salter Street was created a Parish, the Order in Council
of Her Majesty being dated 24th February 1843. The order stated that "the Parish is
to consist of the Heath Side of the Parish of Tanworth, and is bounded on the West and
North, and partly on the East, by the Parish of Solihull, and partly on the East by the
Parish of Packwood, on the South by the Clay Side division of the Parish of Tanworth,
being divided therefrom by a road leading from the turnpike road between Birmingham and
Stratford-on-Avon to the boundary of the Parish of Solihull, near a wood called
Cloweswood." Part of this territory was added to Nuthurst-cum-Hockley Heath, when
that Parish was formed in 1878.
The living is a Vicarage in the gift of the Vicar of Tanworth, and is worth £312 a year
net, with residence. It was endowed in 1840 with £650, part of the money received from
the Stratford Canal Co. Thomas Burman of Waring's Green further endowed the living in
1889, with sums of £350 and £500, appointing Tertius Thomas Burman and Tertius Madeley
Burman trustee for the former, and Woollaston John Burman and Tertius Madeley Burman
trustees for the latter.
The original Church of St. Patrick was a simple brick building, containing two galleries,
one for the men and the other for the women. In 1861, Thomas Burman erected the tower at a
cost of £1200, in memory of his father and mother, John and Catherine Burman of Waring's
Green, which fact is recorded by an inscription carved in the stonework, above the double
entrance doors. In the central position above these doors is a sculptured medallion of the
Ascension. The tower itself forms a Western porch to the Church, the doors being set back
a little, forming a small outer porch, which is panelled at both sides with inscriptions
of the Burman family of Waring's Green. On the South side:
THE REGISTERS
The Registers date from 1840. The first baptism was that of Sarah, daughter of John and
Sarah Cole, October 25th, 1840. The first marriage was of Charles Faulkner and Mary
Whittingham, on November 13th, 1849. The first burial took place on December 8th, 1840,
the deceased being Mary Mills. To commemorate this, Thomas Burman of Beaumont's Hill gave
the stone, and more space on the stone is allotted to this gift than to the deceased.
However, the inscription is still in excellent order, and perhaps Mary Mills would have
had no memorial if she had not died just then.
VICARS
1843-1845 E. W. Garrow
1846-1886 Thomas Hassall Mynors
Mr. Mynors was a fine type of the old-fashioned clergyman, beloved and respected by his
flock.
As a hunting man he was known far and wide. Miss Mynors of Weatheroak Hall is his
daughter.
1887-1889 William Walmsley Sedgwick. Afterwards Bishop of Waiapu, New Zealand.
1889-1906 Gilbert William Barnard
1906-1908 R. C. J. B. Colthurst
1908-1913 Robert Wilson Vicar of Tanworth, 1913-1930
1914-1918 Vivian C. Blyth
1918-1925 Eric Peter Gonner
Canon Gonner was Vicar of Nuthurst - Hockley Heath from 1894 to 1898, and spent the twenty
years between 1898 and 1918 in Birmingham, at Hockley and Deritend.
1925 E. A. Ledsam.
CHURCHWARDENS
The Vestry Minute Book does not commence until 1860, and there does not appear to be any
earlier record in existence. The Churchwardens are recorded in full from that date; the
first named being the Vicar's Warden
1860-1863 Thomas Burman and John Horton
1864-1865 Thomas Burman and Richard Lowe
1865-1891 Thomas Burman and Tertius Thomas Burman
1892-1894 Thomas Burman and Tertius Madeley Burman
1895-1901 Tertius Madeley Burman and T. A. Moakes
1902-1908 W. Price and W. Meek
1909-1910 Tertius Madeley Burman and T. A. Moakes
1911-1930 Tertius Madeley Burman and Edwin Hunt
Extract from "The Story Of Tanworth In Arden", by John Burman. Published in
1930
See Also Churchwardens
Accounts 1837 | History of Earlswood
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