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unusual facts about St Mary the Virgin, Acocks Green



Ashley Castle

The Church of St Mary the Virgin lies within the outer bailey to the north of the ringwork.

Drakelow Tunnels

It was also intended to supply components to Rover's main shadow factories at Acocks Green and Solihull, to supply spare parts, and to act as a backup facility if either of the main shadow factories was damaged by enemy action.

Duke of Rutland

The traditional burial place of the Manners family was St Mary the Virgin's Church, Bottesford.

Edward Ilsley

Archbishop Ilsley Catholic Technology College in Acocks Green, Birmingham, which uses his coat of arms (five golden birds around a golden floriated cross on a blue shield, derived from that of St Edward the Confessor) as their school badge.

Gerard Johnson the elder

In 1591, Johnson was commissioned, ostensibly by Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland, but in practicality his mother, to erect two monuments in St Mary the Virgin's Church at Bottesford, Leicestershire, commemorating the 3rd and 4th earls, Edward and John Manners.

Linslade

But in the 15th century, the original 12th-century church, dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, was rebuilt.

Rolls-Royce Meteorite

This association with the defence ministry lasted 21 years to 1964, and was centred at the Acocks Green "shadow factory" near Birmingham.

Rover Company

Two were run by Rover: one, at Acocks Green, Birmingham, started operation in 1937, and a second, larger one, at Solihull, started in 1940.

St Andrew's Church, Church Road, Hove

Charlotte Elliott, the hymn writer, and her brothers Rev. Henry Venn Elliott and Rev. Edward Bishop Elliott (associated with the curacies of St Mary the Virgin Church and St Mark's Church respectively) are all buried there.

St Mary the Virgin, Acocks Green

He was wounded at Vermelles on 13 October 1915 during the attacks made by the Territorial Battalions of the North and South Staffordshire Regt.

On the south side, there is the grave of Staff Sgt. Gordon Grant Helm, Royal Army Pay Corps.

St Mary the Virgin, Bathwick

The Church of St Mary the Virgin was where the band Muse recorded the organ parts on their second studio album Origin of Symmetry.

St Mary the Virgin, Gillingham, Dorset

On the north wall of the chancel, only two feet above the floor, can be seen the archway of an Easter Sepulchre.

St Mary the Virgin, Middleton

In 1494, a chantry chapel dedicated to St Mary the Virgin was endowed by Gilbert Leygh in Middleton It closed at the time of the Reformation.

The Brandlings owned the Middleton Collieries and built the Middleton Railway.

St Mary the Virgin's Church, Fawley

The design of the mausoleum is based on that of Cecilia Metella on the Appian Way near Rome.

St Mary the Virgin's Church, Little Bromley

The stained glass in the north and south windows dates from the 20th century, and depicts Archbishop Laud and Charles I.

St Mary the Virgin's Church, North Stoke

The Trust administers five former churches in West Sussex; the others are at Chichester, Church Norton, Tortington and Warminghurst.


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