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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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LOZELLS, a chapelry in Aston parish, Warwickshire; forming a northern suburb of Birmingham, and adjoining Aston Park. It was constituted in 1853. Post town, Birmingham. Rated property, £23,614. Pop., 10,923. Houses, 2,225 The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £330. Patron, the Rev. D. N. Watton. The church was built in 1854, at a cost of about £2,650; is a plain brick structure, cruciform, in the early English style; and has a lofty bell-turret. An Independent chapel was erected in 1862, at a cost of about £3,000; is in the Italian style; and presents an elliptical projection, of lofty archway, supported by coupled piers, with richly-carved capitals, and surmounted by pediment and cornice. A Wesleyan chapel, in lieu of a previous one, was built in 1865, at a cost of about £4,000; is in the French first pointed style; and has a tower and spire 130 feet high. A Unitarian chapel is in Villastreet.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Aston AP/CP Warwickshire AncC |
| Place: | Lozells |
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