Smethwick Old Church in 1859

SMETHWICK (OLD CHURCH); A chapel, with a house for the minister, was erected in 1732, by Mrs. Dorothy Parkes, who endowed it independently of the mother church:

The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of her Trustees, and incumbency of the Rev. Edward Dales, who resides in the parsonage, a handsome house near the chapel.

 

[Description(s) from The Topographical Dictionary of England (1859) by Samuel Lewis - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]