GENUKI: Tipton St Mark

Tipton St Mark (Ocker Hill)

"Ocker Hill Church, St Mark, has about 600 sittings, and is a neat brick fabric, in the perpendicular style, erected in 1850. Its district parish, formed in 1846, includes Ocker Hill, Lea Brook, and other adjacent parts of Tipton parish.
The benefit is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Crown and Bishop of Lichfield alternately, and incumbency of the Rev Lionel William Stanton, BA."

[From History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire, William White, Sheffield, 1851]

Church History
Church Records

Church History

St Mark's ecclesiastical parish was formed on 3rd September 1845. The church at Ocker Hill opened in November 1849 and is a building of blue brick, in the Early English style, designed by Hamilton & Saunders, consisting of a chancel, nave and aisles, south porch and a turret, containing one bell. The chancel was restored in 1910 and a new organ chamber added. The living is a vicarage, in the alternate gift of The Crown and the Bishop of Lichfield.

On the East wall is a memorial to the men of the parish who died in the First World War.
A photograph of the WW1 Memorial plaque.

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Church Records

Church of England Registers
The register of St Mark, Tipton, commences in 1846. Microfilm copies of the registers for the period 1846-1970 (Bapts), 1850-1978 (Mar) & 1850-1937 (Bur) are held at Sandwell Archives.

Nonconformist Church Registers
Records of Nonconformist churches in Tipton can be found on the Tipton page.