st helen
OUR REGULAR SERVICES
ST ALPHEGE
Sundays
8.00am Holy Eucharist (said)
9.15am Parish Eucharist in church
'The Junction' in the Oliver Bird Hall
joining Parish Eucharist at communion
2nd Sunday: All-age Eucharist in church
11.00am Sung Eucharist
(using traditional language)
6.30pm Choral Evensong
4th Sunday: Congregational Evensong
Weekday Eucharists
Monday 9.30am
Tuesday 9.30am
Wednesday 10.15am
Thursday 10.30am
1st in month - Healing
3rd in month - Mothers' Union
Corporate Eucharist
Saturday 9.30am
Daily Morning Prayer
Mon-Sat 9.00am
(Wednesday 8.30am in term time)
ST HELEN
Sundays
8.00am Eucharist
(Book of Common Prayer)
10am Parish Eucharist & Sunday Club 3rd Sunday: All-age worship
(No eucharist)
6.30pm Evening Worship in Chapel
2nd Sunday: Wholeness and Healing
in Chapel
Weekday Eucharist
Friday 10.00am
ST MICHAEL
Sundays
10.30am Holy Eucharist & Sunday Club (Sharmans Cross Junior School)
2nd Sunday: All-age worship
4.30pm 2nd Sunday: Holy Communion (St Michael's Chapel, Bryanston Road)
Weekday Eucharist
Wednesday 10.00am
(St Michael's Chapel, Bryanston Road)
Copyright 2010
Parish of Solihull
Beginnings
Following all the new housing development in the area bounded by Warwick Road, Seven Star Road, Lode Lane and Dovehouse Lane after the Second World War, there were lots of young families finding friendships, baby sitting circles and so forth. Several of them got together in each other’s houses as a prayer group, where they could nurture their faith in less formal surroundings than were available in the Parish Church. This group grew apace and soon they got too big for meeting in private houses. Meanwhile, a plot of about one acre St. Helens Road had been given to the Parish in 1948 by Revd. R H Couchman. After much discussion and negotiation, a second hand hut was bought and erected on this plot, mostly by do-it-yourself labour ... and St. Helen’s Church proper was born.
St Helen's Church in 1961
St Helen's as it is today
God working in Solihull www.solihullparish.org.uk
Solihull Parish Office, Oliver Bird Hall, Church Hill Road, Solihull, West Midlands B91 3RQ
Phone: 0121 705 5350 Email: office@solihullparish.org.uk
Final Stages
A decision was taken therefore to scrap the hut and build a new youth hall integrated with the main building. This was completed and dedicated in November 2001. Except for the chapel, which is retained as a place of peace and tranquillity, the buildings were built for multi-purpose use and there are few times when the halls are not occupied by some group, many of them secular.
st helen's story
Further Development
A second hut was added later and a permanent structure built in the mid 1970s. Although there was a small chapel in this building apart from the main hall and small meeting rooms and kitchen, this soon proved too small, so a much larger chapel with vestry was built and opened in 1994. Meanwhile, the more robust of the two huts was retained for use by youth organisations, Sunday School etc., but by then it had become more of a liability than an asset, needing a great deal of repair work and its safety was very questionable.
St Helen's in 1987
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