The brass eagle and stem had been removed from a concrete plinth, and a bible gifted to the church from a local family had been "carefully taken off the lectern and placed on the side".

BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND — A church in Birmingham had a brass eagle stolen from its Victorian lectern on June 10, with the hooded suspect caught on CCTV. Video from St Augustine’s Church in ...

CCTV captures the thief stealing the Victorian brass eagle lectern from St Augustine's Church in Edgbaston Rev Tomlinson said the lectern was worth around £6,000 but was hopeful it would be ...

A shameless thief was caught on CCTV stealing a brass eagle lectern worth £6,000 from a church. The lectern is thought to date back to 1868 which is when the church officially opened. The thief ...

The Victorian brass eagle lectern was stolen from St Augustine's Church in Edgbaston, Birmingham but it has now been returned by a Black Country scrap metal dealer.

There will be erected in St. John's Chapel, in Varick-street, to-day a handsome brass eagle lectern, a memorial of the late Rev. Dr. Sulli van H. Weston, who for many years was connected with ...

This is the moment a hooded thief strides into a church and takes an historic brass eagle worth £6,000. The intruder, who had a distinctive gait, struck at St Augustine's Church, Edgbaston ...

A church warden said he believed the theft of a valuable brass eagle lectern was a "targeted" attack. The 100kg (15.7st) lectern, which stands more than 5ft (1.5m) tall, was taken from All Saints ...

A shameless thief was caught on CCTV stealing a brass eagle lectern worth £6,000 from a church.. Footage - which can be watched above - shows the man walk up the aisle of St Augustine's Church in ...

Image caption, Church warden Simon Thompson next to the empty concrete plinth that held the eagle lectern in the village church near Huntingdon A church warden said he believed the theft of a ...

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