Hi - I'm resurrecting this thread some 11 years after the last post as I am researching the history of Hurst Street which came within St Jude's Parish. The two photographs with the vicar in front are correct. The "bulbous" end of the building was where the altar was and, unusually, it was at the west end of the church facing Hill Street. The other picture (with the "flat" end to the church) was the east end. St Jude's Passage ran along the south side of the building, and there was, up until the 1950s, a warehouse at the east end of the church.
By the mid 1960s the warehouse had gone and St Jude's Passage had been extended around the end of the church to Station Street. This is where the photograph with the Vicar after the last service in 1967 was taken.
St Jude's Church was demolished in 1971 and a conference centre attached to the Albany (or Holiday Inn as it is now) was built on the site. It's still there, called "The Birmingham Conference & Events Centre".
Out of interest the buildings up the corner of Station Street have now been demolished and a hotel is to be built on the site.