The Website of Chris Baker

This web site has been developed to act as a gateway to the various interests of Chris Baker and includes links to the books and many of the research papers he has written and more recent work on aspects of Midlands history and his ecclesiatical and theological interests.

You can visit the website here

His background is in engineering and he has continued to be involved in research in train aerodynamics, wind engineering and transport issues, he has also carried out historical work on the development of the Manor and Parish of Kingswinford in the Black Country and also on aspects of Lichfield history.

Ordained as an Anglican clergyman in 1988, he has been attached to parishes in Matlock, Nottingham and from 1998 to 2023 in Lichfield, as a non-stipendiary minister at St. Michael-on-Greenhill. From March 2024 he has held Permission to Officiate in Peterborough Diocese, mainly based at All Saints Oakham.

He is currently webmaster and social media manager for the Black Country Society.

Have a look at his blogs for Oakham and Rutland and particularly on All Saints church in Oakham