Church Memorials Abbots Bromley-Audley

Abbots Bromley
Adbaston
Acton Trussell
Aldridge
Alrewas
Alsagers Bank
Alstonefield
Alton
Amblecote
Anslow
Arley
Armitage
Ashley
Aston-by-Stone
Audley

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Abbots Bromley

CHURCH. St Nicholas
MEMORIALS. A small brass carved out and placed on a marble block - of priest praying - John Francote 1463. Robert Clarke, burgess of Bromley Paget & wife Anne he d1605 & she d1593; they had children John, Robert, Richard - he gave £100 to Bromley, Francis, Isabel, Elizabeth, George, Anne, William, Edward, Alice, Humphrey and Dorothie. Four floor marble-looking slabs - one dated 1657 all inscriptions are badly worn and could not be properly read. Peter Warburton d1700 & Robert Warburton, 2nd son d1694 & Ester d1701 & parents Theodosia & Henry? Warburton he d1709 & she d1711 (inscription is high up & letters are fading). Izaak Upfold? & wife, Margaret & daughter Jane 1702 - could not be read very easily, rather high up. Ann Seymore 1713. Floor slab - Edward Godwin d1775 also wife, Sarah Godwin d1788, also son Benjamin d1822 and also his wife Jane d1826. Floor slab - William Bevins d1789. Floor slab - Mary wife of Walter Dixon, daughter of John Hixon d1749. John Vernon, armiger, corpus forum fepelire voluit, Edward Vernon MD, John d1756, Edward d1780. Jane Wigan d1817. Ester, wife of William Flesher d1823 also William Flesher d1829. Floor slab - Children of Benjamin Jane Godwin - Jane, Mary, Edward died in their infancy & Sarah Godwin d1814 & Jane Godwin d1838 & Elizabeth Godwin d1842 - who did not. WW1 & WW2 Roll of Honour plaques. Another WW1 roll of honour plaque by the altar. Carved on a pillar in the chancel - PTE George Grimley d Italy 1943.
FURNISHINGS. Old-looking chest amongst others. Large black benefactions board with gold lettering dated 1714 transcribed 1763 & again in 1828 & again in 1972. Oil painting of lamenting girl, hand to her head, early C19. Six wooden brackets to hold the horns of the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance.
GLASS MEMORIALS. E window lady chapel - Eliza Mary Manley & Charlotte Lowe, they were formerly of Seaforth & Southgate. Central light of the E window - Rev John Manley Lowe. Glass - Thomas Turner or Turnor agent to Blithfield Estate. Window erected to memory of Joseph Ellis (b1783) 1904.

Adbaston

CHURCH. St Michael
MEMORIALS. Incised marble slab effigies of Reginald Bradoke, lord of Adbaston d July 1 1441 & Matilda, wife, daughter of John Griffin soldier died Dec 7 1468. Brass plate - Mary, wife of Edward Barbour d1708. Brass plate - Edward Barbour d1713. William Wakeley d Nov 28 1714 aged 125 - buried near by (it is a fairly modern looking wooden plaque; the vicar Max Welch thinks there may be truth in it). Richard Townsend of Ellerton Grange d1729, & son, William d1728. William Cotton? of Gilberts Lea d1784 & wife Ann Cotton d1804 & son John d1753, Ann d1772, Charles d1775, William d1778, Maria d1794, & John d1820. John Townsend Gollins d1805 also William Baduley Townsend d1811 also Baduley Townsend last surviving son of Capt William Rogers of Landsdown Crescent, Bath d1830 and also Elizabeth last surviving child of Capt Rogers d1832. Elizabeth wife of John Townsend Gollins d1840. Ann Vickers of Ellerton Grange d1846. William Rogers Post Capt Royal Navy of Lansdown Crescent, Bath d1848 & wife, Anne great grand daughter of Richard Townsend of Ellerton Grange d1843. Francis Hickin Northern of Lea House d1861 & wife, Mary, d1841 buried in vault of her father at Eccleshall, also Frances Hickin Northern 2nd daughter of the above d1859. Elizabeth wife of John Newton of Irnham, Lincolnshire and daughter of John Townsend Gollins d1881. J. Somner Billington d1985, organist, & warden. WW1 Roll of Honour. WW2 Roll of Honour.
FURNISHINGS. Commandments Board in Belfry.
GLASS MEMORIALS. E window - Elizabeth Newton. Glass - Richard Taylor of Adbaston Hall d1866.

Acton Trussell

CHURCH. St James
MEMORIALS. Richard Neville of Ricarscoat 1647-1728. Ann Richards, wife of William Westley Richards, only daughter of John Barlow d1821 aged 29. Richard Locker d1886. Samuel Wright & wife Sarah also Robert Wright, Sarah Locker, Emma Wright, Jane Wright, Anne Barlow, & John Barlow lie buried in a vault near church also Catherine Yates died & interred at Ahmednuggar, India. Samuel Barlow Wright d1897. WW1 Roll of Honour. Rev Arthur Richard Alsop MA d1928. WW2 Roll of Honour.
FURNISHINGS. Old worn font.
GLASS MEMORIALS. Georgiana Beaumond Alsop 1878. Armorial glass, window in vestry - John Higgot of Moat House d1862. Rev Evan Price vicar of Dunston 1875, Ann Price 1882, Martha H Price 1846. Glass - Sarah wife of Rev Richard Locker d1884 & sisters Emma & Jane. Glass - Edith Elizabeth d1846 & Louisa Marg d1855 daughter of James R Alsop. Glass (replaced recently) James Malcolm Lees Lieut 1st Batt N. Staffs Regt. killed in action 1916.

Aldridge

CHURCH. St Mary
MEMORIALS. Defaced effigy of a Priest probably Robert Stapleton, early C14. Effigy of a cross-legged knight, probably Nicholas de Alrenzie, early C14. William Scott of Great Barr d1644, & wife, Elianor, daughter of Thomas Fryth of Thorns d1651, & sons, Thomas & Edward, & daughters, Eliza, Mary & Winifride. Thomas Lacy d1703, son of John Lacy of Feckenham, Worcs, & wife, Eleanor d1705, & children, William Scott d1702, Thomas, Frances & Mary. Katharine Samuelis Leigh d1711, wife of Thomas Gove of Rowley. Elizabeth Twyford d1727. Rev. John Dolman M.A. & prebendary & Divinity Lecturer of the Cathedral Church of Lichfield d1746 & wife, Margaret, & children William d1748, & Mary. Walter Day d1754. John Scott of Great Barr d1755, & wife, Eleanor (nee Jordan) d1765, & children, Eleanor, Frances, Elizabeth, & two daughters died in infancy. Rev. Edward Tongue d1782, & wife, Dorothy Wood d1718, also his son, Edward Tongue d1803, & wife, Deborah Cox d1819. John Wakeman d1811. Edward Tongue d1879, & wife Sidney Croxall of Shustoke d1869, & younger son, Vincent Capt. 60th King’s royal Rifle Corps d1883, & wife, Janet d1914. Lights - in memory of Edward Tongue & his sons, Randall F. Tongue-Croxall, & Vincent Tongue 1881. Rev. William Taylor Newbold M.A. Fellow of St John’s College Cambridge 1875, headmaster of St Bede’s School to 1903 d1908. Alice Potts d1918 in Service of Aldridge Auxilliary Hospital. J. Langford, choirmaster till 1960& organist. Clock tower restoration - John Francis d1978.
GLASS MEMORIALS. W window - William d1839 & Hannah Allport d1842, erected 1869. One piece given by the scholars of the girl’s school 1870. Frederick John James d1871. Edward d1879 & Vincent Tongue d1883. Samuel & Harriette parkes & their family. Joseph & Mary Joberns & their son William. One inscription is illegible.

Alrewas

CHURCH. All Saints
MEMORIALS. Benefactions board. William Turton d1683 & wife, Elinor d1681. St John Turton d1707. Rev. John Bradley d1708. John Turton d1771. John Baggaley d1854. Rev. George Frager d1869. Clara Selwyn d Norfolk Island, S. Pacific 1877. Joseph Till d1884. Ellen Wilkes d1888. Henry Kent - a shrine to local heros - 1917. Nurse Eliza Kent d1918. Roll of Honour WW1 & WW2. To fallen scouts of 1st Alrewas troop of (B.P) scouts - Arthur Bannister, John Bean, William John Lucas. Francis William Coates d1952 & wife Elizabeth d1931 - the restoration of the organ. Edwin George Thomas d1968. James Robert McKnight, headmaster d1975.
GLASS MEMORIALS. Rev. John Moore d1851. Thomas & Maria Parr d1884/1876. Mary Ann Brierley 1911. Henry Willis Brierley d1937. Rev. John Griffiths MBE, MA d1964.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. Joseph Berrisford drowned in 2nd lock on Fradley Heath interred 5 July 1785 aged 8.

Alsagers Bank

CHURCH. St John. 1875. Rb 1911 (AOPP PLs.57 shows the 1st church,58 shows the present church).
MEMORIALS. Thomas Williams Hill, Northumberland Fusiliers, died of wounds 1916 at Wimereux Hospital, buried Wimereux Cemetery, Boulogne. WW1 Roll of Honour. Tablet to those killed in Minnie Pit Disaster erected by The Midland Coal, Coke & Iron Company Ltd. Eleanor Edwards-Heathcote d1927. Justinian Heathcote Edwards-Heathcote d1928. Prayer rest - Nancy Green d1928. Janet Bailey, nursing sister, Universities Mission, East Africa 1930-35 (BMSGH). A choir stall - Justinian John Edwards-Heathcote 1938. Panelling - Donald Wemyss d1944, a chorister aged 21 (BMSGH). Mary Elizabeth Warburton d1947, & a cross to her memory (BMSGH). Sanctuary lamp - Mary Elizabeth Dean d1958. George William Henshall, organist & choirmaster d1953. Font - Cyril & Annie Dean 1977. Slate tablet in memory of the Christian people of St Paul’s Church, Scot Hay 1880-1980. Lectern - Kenneth Hassall churchwarden 1931-1991.
GLASS MEMORIALS. Rev. Robert Simpson & wife Georgina & daughter Fanny Isabel Simpson d1927. Eleanor & Justinian Heathcote Edwards-Heathcote 1928. Charles William Burgess d1949, Emily Brayford d1954, Frances Maria Wilson d1959.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. Victims of the 1st Minnie Pit Disaster Jan. 17 1915 - John White & Arthur Shufflebotham aged 17 (BMSGH). Victims of the 2nd Minnie Pit Disaster Jan. 12 1918 - Thomas Poole & son Thomas, Percy Salmon aged 14, John Hulse, John Robert Davies, George Burgess, Ralph Steele (his remains were recovered Aug. 28) & many others. By W entrance - Walter William Ashley & son William Walter lost their lives in the Apedale Footerills Disaster April 25 1923. Robert George Mullinex killed in a tractor accident 4 June 1962 aged 14 (BMSGH).

Alstonefield

CHURCH. St Peter
MEMORIALS. Rev. Rogerus Farmer d1682. Benefactions board - Henry Jackson of Stanshope 1702 gave £100 to the poor, and land at Archford Bridge, also John Port of Ilam 1715. Dorothy Wood, wife of Thomas Wood of Hope d1774. William Wood d1805. John Phillips & family of Ashbourne d1830. Ralph Beardmore of Stanhope Hall d1880, & son Ralph d1910, & grandson Ralph d1937. Elizabeth Brindley, wife of Joseph Brindley d1882. Robert & Elizabeth Brindley. Frances Purchas, daughter of Robert Williams of Aberbran, Brecknockshire & wife of Rev. William Henry Purchas d1884. Rev. William Henry Purchas d1903. Maria May Anderson Beresford d1951. Plant stand - Preb. S. Beresford M.A. vicar 1928-64. Plant stand - ‘Dear Aunt Flo’ d1978.
FLOOR SLABS. Rev. Peter Parr M.A. d? & wife Maud d17_?. Elizabeth _____ Ffox lady of John Ffox of __oleshunt = knights Essex d?. _________ Gould (female). Richard Gibbs C.W. 1727. Rebecca Osborne spinster d1783 also Dorothy Burton d1736, & Mary Osborne d1762, & Mary Osborne, her daughter d1770, the above Rebecca Osborne was also her daughter.
GLASS MEMORIAL. E window - Sir George Crewe Bart. of Calke Abbey, Derbys, & Warslow Hall d1844, erected by Dame Jane Crewe.
FURNISHINGS. Stone commandments boards. C17 box pews restored by Robert Bostorni 1637. Church chest bears date 1713.
NOTE. Many fragments of masonary, including old font by the new font. Three pieces of coffin lid decorated, inserted into the wall of the porch, & one piece inside the church. Fragment of wood inscribed ‘W 1657 M’ originally from roof. Charles Cotton’s Pew.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. Charles Cotton’s 1st wife’s grave. Epitaph on grave to Sarah Bonsall d1812 & John Bonsall d1823. Sarah Bill d1833.

Alton

CHURCH. St Peter
FURNISHINGS. Painting of a portrait of a woman. 20ft by 5ft approx high wall mural with faded inscription - could not be read, and figure of a knight.
MEMORIALS. Charity board - Samson Beardmore, Mrs Elizabeth Wharton, Mrs Bill, John Johnson, Mary Shaw, Thomas Key 1720. Charity board - Richard Harper, Robert Beardmore, William Gent, John Hewit, Mr Brough, John Hewit. Thomas Mycock d1723 & brothers & sisters - could not be read as something in way. Robert Bill d1751 & wife Lydia d1769 & 13 children, also Robert by his 2nd wife Alice d1780 Gibraltar. Hannah Ratcliffe d1779. William Bill d1785 & son Robert of Stone d1827. Mary Bill d1800 & son Robert d1806, also Rev. John Bill d1806 husband of the above Mary, also Charles Bill of Farley Hall d1809, also Esther Bill d1833 wife of John Bill the younger d1847, also his sister Maria Burton d1847 Bath. Matthew Brindley d1820 & wife Lydia d1838. John Lees d1822. George Smith d1826. Mary Mence d1826. Rev. Thomas Blackey d1828. Heaton’s Charity stone board 1843. John Bill of Farley Hall d1853 & wife Sarah d1878, also son John d1856 of an illness at Harrow aged 17. Jane Wilson d1897. Alice Violet d1917 wife of Charles Fitzherbert Bill d1955. Stricking mechanism of church clock in memory of Edward Lees d1957. Richard Norman Allmond d1967. Memorials in the church tower could not be read.
GLASS MEMORIALS. Charles Bill d1915.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. Sundial. Charles Tortoiseshell of Denstone d1842, the TO at the front of the name is missing.

Amblecote

CHURCH. Holy Trinity (Survey by BMSGH)
MEMORIALS. Anna Eleanor Amery eldest daughter of John Amery of Park House, Stourbridge d1844 at London aged 15 interred at Chelsea. James Batson of Stourbridge left in his will £100 to the poor 1820, proved? 1850. William King of Amblecote Hall d1850. Rev. John William Crier first incumbent of Amblecote d1866 aged 55 suddenly after preaching in this church on Sunday Jan 28. Joseph Pitman of The Mill, Amblecote d1871 & wife Mary Ann d1870, & eldest son Joseph d1853 aged 23 of a fever at Zante. Lectern - Joseph & Jane Webb 1901. Misericord on stall in SE corner of nave with coat of arms on top left hand corner - John Simon Boldero A.M. 1902. WW1 roll of honour. Pulpit - Bernard Thomas White Jones, priest. Panelling - Rev. H.M. Crabbe M.A. Font - Wor. Bro. Joseph Aston P.M.P.P.G.R. placed by the Freemasons of Stability Lodge Nº 564 Stourbridge.
GLASS MEMORIALS. Rev. H.M. Crabbe vicar 1913-36. Mary Laughton Baker d1936 aged 19. Alvan Turner verger d1948. Edwin Harley Hambrey churchwarden d1948. Albert Peter Guest d1966. Mynnie Frances Bomber d1967 & husband Donald Geoffrey Bomber d1970. Orpah Egan. Henry James & Emma Jane Rogers.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. Ernest Adelheim son of Augustus & Magdelena Sieber died May 28 1869, were the Siebers glassworkers from the Continent or of Huguenot descent asks John Sparry in BCM Oct. 1993 p22. David Reginals Guttery d1958 teacher, author & councellor for the Urban District.

Anslow

CHURCH. Holy Trinity
MEMORIALS. Constance Elizabeth Tennant, wife of Charles Edmund Tennant Commander R.N. formerly of Needwood House, youngest daughter of Robert Amcotts of Hackthorn, Lincoln d1898. Eliza Beckett d1904. Rev. Thomas Wall Beckett M.A. d1907. Catherine Smith d1910 - unsual diamond-shaped copper plaque with R.I.P. round the border. A. L. Oct. 24.1914. - unsual diamond-shaped copper plaque studded with green glass. WW1 (12 died) & WW2 (two died - H.A. Birch & Tom Taberner) rolls of honour.
GLASS MEMORIAL. E window - Charles Edmund Tennant d1862.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. Joseph Bates d1874 in Australia.

Arley

CHURCH. St Peter.
MEMORIALS. Effigy on a chest tomb - Sir Walter de Balun died c1270 on his wedding day. Sir Henry Lyttleton Bart of Frankley d1603, & 1st wife Philadphia Cary (granddaughter of Earl of Monmouth), & 2nd wife Hon. Mrs Elizabeth Newport (daughter of Francis Viscount Newport of Shrops.) also Capt. William Lyttleton & his nephew Henry Lyttleton eldest son of Sir Charles Lyttleton, above is an urn made of marble. Sir Charles Lyttleton Knt. & Bart. d1716. Thomas Corbyn of Eymore d1811, he was the last surviving son of Joseph Corbyn. Hon. Henry Arthur Annesley 6th son of Arthur Earl of Mountnorris d1818 aged 27 two weeks after his marriage to Sarah (eldest daughter of Richard Ainsworth of Halliwell, Lancs.) whilst bathing at Blackpool. George Arthur Annesley Viscount Valentia eldest son of George 2nd Earl of Mount Norris, d1841, & wife Frances Cockburn Viscountess Valentia d1856. George Annesley Earl of Mount Norris (eldest son of Arthur 1st Earl of Mount Norris by Hon. Lucy Fortescue Lyttleton) b1770 at Arley Castle, d1844 here, & wife Lady Anne Courtnay, sister of William 9th Earl of Devon. Rev. John Allen died in consequence of an accident 1850. Georgina Lyttelton daughter of Arthur Lyttelton-Annesley, wife of Richard Tanfield Vachell, d1910 at Florence. WW1 roll of honour. Carved into the stone wall - Capt. Robert Woodward wounded & died 1915 at Richebourge, L’ Avoue, France (marbel medallion of him above). Lieut. Gen. Sir Arthur Lyttelton Lyttelton-Annesley K.C.B. K.C.V.O. Hon. Col. 11th Prince Alberts Own Hussars (son of Arthur Lyttelton Annesley of Arley Castle, & Camolin Park, Co. Wexford, Ireland & Mary, daughter of John Bradley of Colbourne Hall, Staffs.) d1926. WW2 roll of honour - four dead. Lamp in the chapel - Sir Chad Woodward Kt. d1957, erected by his life long friend Edward Murray of Edinburgh. Restoration of the bells at cost of £2,000 in 1970.GLASS MEMORIALS. E window N aisle - Arthur Lyttelton Annesley d1882 erected 1886, also wife Mary Annesley d1886. E window - Robert Woodward 1887. Rev. Charles James Wilding M.A. & wife Eliza 1926.
FURNISHING. Commandment boards.
NOTE. Illustration of the Arley Charter 1606.

Armitage

CHURCH. St John
MEMORIALS. Rev. Francis Wilson d1871 & wife, Elizabeth d1900. Capt. Arthur Legge Samson - (bust relief above) killed 1915 awarded Military Cross, also clock to his memory. Rev. Edward Samson of Armitage Lodge d1921.
GLASS MEMORIALS. Mary Spode d1860. Ann Gulson d1871. Edward Gulson d1874. Rev. J.W. Kewley d1907. Alice Mary Samson d1914. And husband, Rev Edward Samson.
FURNISHINGS. Commandments written on wall by altar now very faint. Large model of Armitage & Handsacre 1925.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. Restored Norman cross. John Meredith Eyles, Secretary of the Metropolitan Railway Company, & late Capt. of the 5th West Middlesex R.V. d1889 aged 41.

CHURCH. Armitage Chapel 1820 (Information from NCSS p209)
MEMORIALS. Louisa Ibotson d1825. Thomas Birch of Armitage Lodge d1837. James Matthews d1841 & wife Mary d1830. Mary Birch wife of Thomas d1842.

Ashley

CHURCH. St John Baptist
MEMORIALS. Massive tomb to and with effigies of Sir Gilbert Gerard d1593& wife, Lady Anne Radcliffe of Wimmersley in Lancashire d1602. Tablet on W side of this massive tomb reads ‘Here lies the body of Thomas Lord Gerard which dyed President of Wales Oct:The 7th Anno 1617, Gilbert Lord Gerard dyed May the 11th Anno 1623, Dutton Lord Gerard dyed April the 24th Anno 1640, Charles Lord Gerard dyed December the 28th 1667, Digby Lord Gerard dyed November the 8th 1684, Charles Lord Gerard dyed April the 12th 1707.’ John Chetwynd, son of John Chetwynd of Rudge d1634 & wife, Susanna. Mrs Hannah Kenrick, wife of John Kenrick of Ashley d1732. David Kenrick - a dedication by him to the Omipotent, on a brass plaque. Floor slab to Daniel Gabriel Giberne A.M. Prebend of Lincoln d1749. William Lord Viscount Chetwynd d1770, above his mural plaque above the arch to the chancel is the Wedgwood vase made & given by Josiah Wedgwood in memory of the same William, 3rd Viscount Chetwynd. Mary Pym, daughter of Wollaston Pym d1779? also Mary, wife of Wollaston Pym d1786 & Wollaston Pym d1786. William Jones d1787. Mary Jones of Covent Garden, London d1800. Hugh Meynell d1800. Elizabeth Ingram, daughter & heiress of Charles, the last Viscount Irwin of Temple Newsam, Yorks, & wife of Hugh Meynell d1817. Monumentual tomb & figure to Thomas Kinnersly of Clough Hall, Kidsgrove d1819, also wife, Mary d1825. Mary Attwood of Edgbaston Priory, Warks d1823, she was daughter of 1st Thomas Kinnersly. Medallion on monumentual tomb to William Shepherd Kinnersly of Newcastle-under-Lyme, eldest son of Thomas Kinnersly of Clough Hall, Kidsgrove d1823. Ann Barber, daughter of William & Mary Jones d1828? also John Jones of Middlesex d1843? Anne, wife of 2nd Thomas Kinnersly d1843? Harriot, daughter of 2nd Thomas Kinnersly d1843? Hge monument with 3 figures to 2nd Thomas Kinnersly of Clough Hall, Kidsgrove d1855. William Turner Aston d1857. Anne Hardinge of Willoughbridge d1859, also 2 children of Rev T.H. Hardinge, Catharine Elizabeth d1841 & Emily Mary d1846. Elizabeth Kinnersly d1865, a mural with cherubs. Tablet built into the E. side of the Sir Gilbert Gerard tomb is to Hugo Charles Meynell Ingram of Hoar Cross & Temple Newsam, son of Hugo Meynell & Hon. Elizabeth Ingram d1869, also wife, Georgiana Meynell Ingram d1868, also Admiral Henry Charles Meynell Ingram d1865, Elizabeth Waymouth, sister of Hugo Charles Meynell Ingram d1865, Colonel Samuel Waymouth d1863, Louisa Meynell Ingram d1870, Georgiana Eliza Meynell Ingram d1903 - daughters of Hugo Charles & Georgiana Meynell Ingram buried below this church. Hugo Francis Meynell Ingram of Hoar Cross & Temple Newsam, son of Hugo Charles Meynell Ingram d1871, & wife, Emily Charlotte Meynell Ingram d1904. There is another, sort of, memorial to these two in the church. Frederick Lindley Meynell of Hoar Cross - restorer of the church. Isabella & Edward Francis, children of Hugo & The Hon. Elizabeth Meynell of Hoar Cross. Benefaction board - Rev Thomas Bowyer gave £10 etc etc. The Barber Charity plaque - will of Miss Harriet Barber d1883. Thomas Noden, churchwarden d1889.
GLASS MEMORIALS. E window in Lady Chapel - Frederick Lindley Meynell. Wilhelmiet Maria Elizabeth Garner. Rev. Joseph Richards. Mary L. Richards, wife of Rev. Joseph Richards. Major Bernard Richards & Brigadier Harold Richards, sons of Rev Joseph Richards. Armorial window bearing arms of Thomas Kinnersly d1855, George Attwood d1854, Robert Williamson d1869, Lt. Col. Henry Hebden d1879. Armorial window bearing arms of Edward kinnersly d1868, William kinnersly d1778, Thomas Kinnersly d1819, William Shepherd Kinnersly d1823, Thomas Kinnersly d1855.
NOTE. The Wedgwood vase made & given by Josiah Wedgwood in memory of William, 3rd Viscount Chetwynd, positioned above the arch to the chancel.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. Perhaps the oldest gravestone, now used in wall of the path around the church - Edward Tompson (youner) died Aug. 29 & wife Mary Sept. 25 1727. Rev. Joseph Richards d1941, & his sons in separate graves, Bernard Garner Richards T.D. Major in Royal Artillary d1972, & Joseph Harold William Garner Richards OBE D.L. Brigadier d1986 spent childhood at Ashley Rectory.

Aston-by-Stone

CHURCH. St Saviour.
MEMORIALS. The clock is in memory of Viscount & Viscountess St Vincent founders of the church 1860. Hon. Mary Parker Jervis wife of Hon. E.S Parker Jervis of Aston Hall, Sutton Coldfield 1885. Rev. Richard Locker, clerk in Holy Orders d1886. WW1 & WW2 rolls of honour. Grace Catharine Locker d1930, youngest daughter of Sir John Jervis, she firstly married Edward John Parker-Jervis. Prayer table in memory of Percy Alfred Hugo, Frances Elizabeth Hugo, Edward Percy Alfred Hugo 1971 - there are some more of these presentation furnishings, which I decided not to mention.
GLASS MEMORIALS. E window - Viscount & Viscountess St Vincent, founders of the church 1860, former d1859 & latter d1855. Alfred Octavius Parker Jervis d1863. Philip Vincent Jervis d1863, youngest son of the Lord Justice Jervis. Mary Maude eldest daughter of the Hon. E.S. Parker Jervis d1879. W window - Edward John, eldest son of Hon. Edward Swynfen Parker Jervis d1868. Alice Edith 2nd daughter of Hon. E.S. Parker Jervis d1879. William Thomas Locker of Tillington d1885. William Robert Parker Jervis 1924.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. Large mausoleum in sunken area at E end of church. Catharine Jervis of Darlaston Hall d1880 & St. Vincent Walter Fane Jervis d1908. Troop Sergt. To S of the S porch - Major Thomas Pilsbury 13th Hussars killed at Burston by a railway accident Jan. 1 1887 aged 33. John St. Vincent Parker-Jervis 2nd son of Hon. E.S. Parker-Jervis of Aston Hall d1892 & wife Ann d1920. James Myatt born Rudyard Hall 1830 d1900 at Burston Villa. Topped with an angel - William Robert Parker-Jervis son of Hon. E.S. Parker-Jervis & grandson of 2nd Viscount St. Vincent d1919 also H. Col. William Swynfen Whitehall Parker-Jervis D.S.O. of Meaford & Park Hall d1936 & his sister Ethel Mary Parker-Jervis OBE J.P. d1956, also Edward Mainwaring 2nd son of William Robert Parker-Jervis d1935.

CHURCH St Michael Archanglel (R.C.), built 1882.
MEMORIALS. Brass - Rev Edward Canon Huddlestone for 25 years priest of Stafford and for 16 years at Aston where he died on Dec 14 1871 aged 73 years. Rev John O Price, rector of this mission 1899-1905. Sarah Woods d1899 in her 85th year. Rev Edmund JO Gorman d1933, rector of this church 1903-33.

Audley

CHURCH. St James.
MEMORIALS Brass of Sir Thomas Audley d1385 (dying before his father James de Audley ‘the Baron’). Recumbent effigy of Sir John Delves. c.1380. Recumbent effigy of a priest, Edward Vincent d1622. William Abnet d1628 & wife, Anne, brass figure of William Abnet. Rev. John Kellsall d1665? & Richard Kelsall, son of Rev. William Kelsall d1724 & Charles Kelsall, son of Ralph & Mary d1781. Anne Eardley d1676. Elizabeth & Alice Eardley, daughters of Edward Eardley, Elizabeth d1715? & many children. Audley Com. Staff board 1716. Chest-tomb to John Cradock d1721 & Theophila, wife? or relation? of John d1742? Radulphi Henshall d1735. John Cradock d1758 & wife? Anastasia d1763. Benefaction board - John Middleton 1772. Charles Tollet d1776 aged 15 & Catherine d1780 aged 14, also Anastasia Tollet d1778 aged 14. Thomas Rowley of Mill End d1779, also children, Thomas d1768 & Hannah d1766, & niece Jane Swinnerton d1784. James Caldwell of Linley Wood d1838, also wife Elizabeth d1831, also Frances d1801, Mary d1813, Catherine Louisa d1814, & James Stamford Caldwell d1858, & sister, Anne Marsh Caldwell d1874, buried Talk-o-th-Hill. John Wedgwood of Bignal End d1839 - (monument at Red Street). Plaques in memorandum of Queen Victoria’s Diamond jubilee. George Booth of Castle Hill Farm - clock dial to his memory 1897. Thomas Twemlow c.1903. William Edwin Lowe died France 1917. John Dodd - secretary to the Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly Society Audley, d1919. Fredrick Lawrence Cork d1919 & Maria Cork d1930. Rev John Pauli 1919 - lectern cross- which is now missing - & arms dish given in his memory. Harry Williams, Choirister d1968.
GLASS MEMORIALS. John Edensor Heathcote d1869. Mary Morris d1905 & Elizabeth Anne Warham d1922, Henry Benjamin Morris d1927.
CURIO. Little metal plaque in memorandum of Queen Victoria’s death - a flag - no longer existing - was hoisted up halfmast on the tower.

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