Church Memorials Blakenall Heath-Brewood

Blakenall Heath
Blithfield
Blore (Ray)
Bloxwich
Blurton
Blymhill
Bobbington
Bradley
Bradley, Bilston
Bradley-in-the-Moors
Bramshall
Brereton
Brewood

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Blakenall Heath

CHURCH. Christ Church MEMORIALS. Mary Ann only daughter of Rev. John & Mary Ann Pritchard d1882 aged 27. Lectern - Rural Dean Rev. J.F. Smith 1882. John Edward Bealey J.P. of The Hills, Bloxwich d1889. John Cope d1909 churchwarden. Sarah A. Stackhouse d1913 a teacher at Blakenall Church Schools. Communion rails - Sydney Herbert Yates, churchwarden d1916. WW1 roll of honour. Ambrose Melbis Leefe, lay evangelist d1931. John Renhard, verger to 1937. Chair originally belonging to John Bealey founder of this church presented by Robert A. Nicholls 1946. Panelling - Maurice Jeffries d1947. Chair - Frances Ann Lester chorister & Sunday school teacher 1955 aged 18. The Aumbry - William & Mary Alice White 1955. Flower stand - Samuel Wright 1982. Incumbents board. GLASS MEMORIALS. Two windows presented by E. Farnall of The Hills, Bloxwich 1879. Ven. Archdeacon Moore 1879. Bishop Selwyn 1880. E window has inscription but can’t be read due to reredos in the way.

Blithfield

CHURCH. St Leonard MEMORIALS IN THE CHANCEL. Chest tomb topped with slab incised with effigies to/of Sir Lewis Bagot (although it looked like Jodolkin for Lewis, to me) d1534 & wife, Anne d1513/4. Chest tomb topped with slab incised with effigies to/of Thomas Bagot d1541 & wife Joanne? Chest tomb with rcumbent effigies to/of Richard Bagot d1596 & wife Maria, did she die in the same year? Walter Bagot d1622 & wife Elizabeth d1638, daughter of Robert Cave & their children Lewis, Hervey, Richard, William, Ann, Francis, Lettice & Marye. Hervey Bagot, 20th Knight (or son of?) d1655 aged 13. Hervey Bagot Baronet d1660, & 1st wife Elizabeth Srimshire of Norbury, & 2nd wife Ann Clementis Fisher of Packington, Warks. Hervey, eldest son of Sir Edward Bagot Bart d1699 & wife Dame Frances, daughter of Sir Thomas Wagstaffe of Tachbrooke, Warks. Sir Walter Wagstaff Bagot Bart, son of Sir Edwaard Bagot Bart d1768, & wife Barbara d1765, daughter of WIlliam 1st Earl of Dartmouth. William Lord Bagot, son of Sir W.W. Bagot Bart - he was raised to the position of a baron by George III 1780 - d1798, & wife Louisa d1820. Within the same plaque - William 2nd Lord Bagot, son of William Lord Bagot d1856, also 1st wife, Emily, daughter of Charles Fitz-Roy Lord Southampton d1800, also Louisa eldest surviving daughter of George 3rd Earl of Dartmouth, & 2nd wife of William 2nd Lord Bagot d1816, & children, Louisa, Agnes, William, Hervey, Eleanor & Alfred. Right Hon. Sir Charles Bagot Knt of Grand Cross of the Bath, 2nd surviving son of William 1st Lord Bagot d1843, & wife Lady Mary, daughter of William 3rd Earl of Mornington (brother to Richard Marquis Wellesley & Arthur, Duke of Wellington) he was ambassador to the courts of St Petersburg, The Hague & Vienna, & Governor General of Canada. Above is a little brass plaque, its inscription is written in French, it is to the same Sir Charles, 2nd surviving son of William 1st Lord Bagot specifically to note he was ambassador to the Emperor of Russia in 1821. Georgiana Agnes Finch eldest daughter of William 3rd Lord Bagot d1874. Stall & screen - Rev. Hervey D. Bagot 1881. William 3rd Lord Bagot d1887. Lucia Caroline Elizabeth wife of William 3rd Lord Bagot d1895. Edward Luke Henry Bagot, 2nd Lt. Welsh Guards killed on Somme 1916. Below is a small metal tablet, I can’t make out who to, it is in Latin - starts “Redemptions nostrae signum extra muros antiquitius erectum misterii annis XXV jam peractis...’ Walter Lewis Bagot died at Admaston, Johannesburg, S. Africa 1927, he was Major Grenadier Guards DSO & 2nd son of William 3rd Lord Bagot. Harriet wife of Richard Bagot, Bishop of Bath & Wells. FLOOR SLABS IN THE CHANCEL. Smallish, incised with an effigy of a skeleton-like cloaked man storking about under a canopy, the inscription, which is in English, can’t be read. Isabella Bagot, wife of Richard Bagot, daughter of Sir Robert Aston knt of Tixall d1477 - it was an incised slab with effigy(ies) now defaced although in the centre is a brass plaque placed in 1819 with a full transcript of the original text. The same is done for the floor slab to John Bagot, even so it is in Latin & was hard for me to make out, there seemed to be no date. The same with a floor slab to another or the same John Bagot, who, the transcript tells us, is buried between his two wives, he was the son & heir of Richard Bagot, he 1st married Isabella daughter of John Curzon of Essex & 2nd married Agneta, daughter of ? of Kniveton, he died 1480. Incised with effigies to/of Francis Aston d1593 & wife, Maria , daughter of A_____ Alicy Viigirly? Maria Bagot d1686. MEMORIALS IN THE VESTRY. Mary d1658? wife of Thomas Crawley of Nether Crawley, Beds. Salisbury Bagot d1673. Sir Edward Bagot son of Sir Hervey Bagot Bart d1673, & wife Mary, they had 17 children, seven survived him - Walter, Lambard, Lewis, William, Charles, Ann (married Walter Chetwynd of Ingestre), Mary. Dame Jane Bagot wife of Sir Walter Bagot Bart, daughter & sole heiress of Charles Salesbury of Bachymbyd, Denbighshire d1695, also Sir Walter Bagot, son of Sir Edward Bagot Bart d1704. Edward Bagot Baronet d1712 & wife Frances, daughter of Thomas Wagstaff. Lady Mary Charlotte Anne Bagot eldest daughter of William 3rd Earl of Mornington & wife of Sir Charles Bagot d1845. MEMORIALS IN THE NAVE, BELFRY. Rev. George Roadesam d1713. Ann wife of Rev. Walter Bagot (nee Swinnerton of Butterton) d1786. Rev. Thomas Townson D.D. d1792 at Malpas. Capt. Hervey Bagot R.N 3rd surviving son of Rev. Walter Bagot died London 1816, also Lt. Humphrey Bagot, his next brother, d1815 of wounds received in the attack upon the Goorkah Army on the Heights of Malown, Nepal. Mrs Frances Tooth d1825. Rev John James Cory B.D died Rickmansworth, Herts 1834. Mary Bagot wife of Rev. Walter Bagot d1846. Anne Dicken d1859 & husband Thomas Dickin d1878 (their daughter, Frances Mary, married a Bagot). Francis Robert William Bagot son of Alexander & Gertrude Bagot died at sea 1861. The bells were the gift of Hugh Lupus Duke of Westminster on the occasion of the coming of age of Hon. William Bagot Jan 19 1878. An inscription to note the Golden Anniversary of Queen Victoria - a 6th bell was hung. William Stonebridge d1892, friend & servant of William 3rd Lord Bagot. William 3rd Lord Bagot & wife, Lucia - restoration of the organ was to their memory 1895. WW1 roll of honour, also one person fell in WW2 - Francis Loenneth? Fell, seaman. Rev. Douglas Staurt Murray d1920 & wife Harriet Georgina Isabel d1921, & children Leonard killed 1917, George died aswell in active service 1940, Walter d1945, Mabel d1949 - bells were restored to their memory 1952. Two Floor slabs - ‘M.F.B. R.E.B. 1925, 1923’. Rev. Herbert Ratford d1934 & wife Crystal Mai d1961, & daughter Rosemary Cecile d1972. The car park of Blithfield church is in memory of Annie Elizabeth Arblaster d1973. GLASS MEMORIALS. Emily d1800 & Louisa d1816, wife of William, 2nd Lord Bagot. Louisa, eldest daughter of William 1st Lord Bagot & wife of Walter Sneyd of Keele d1834, & also her daughter, Georgiana Mary Sophia Sneyd d1816 aged 10. Wilhelmina Frederica, wife of Henry Bagot d1852. Emily Maria d1853 - ‘Hanc Fenestram Posuit Georgius T.O. Bridgeman’? E window - Caryl Ernest, 6th Baron Bagot & Walter H. Bagot of Adelaide S. Australia, rededicated in 1965, the earlier window was erected to the Bishop’s memory in 1856. Six chancel windows restored in memory of Ida Gertrude Spicer d1979 by her daughter Nancy Constance Bagot. W window - Edgar Clare Wigan d1980, the tower was restored by his Goddaughter, Caryl Rosemary Bagot 1981. Four windows high in the nave each with three lights - are these dedicated? FURNISHINGS. A benefactions board in the belfry. A framed collage tapestry presented by the Mother’s Union 1992, they designed & made it. NOTE. Jousting helmet above chest-tomb to Sir Richard Bagot, the original is in the Royal Armouries in the Tower of London, crest; a goats head. Another jousting helmet, probably a copy, crest; a smaller repica of a goats head with horns, though includes more of the goats body, it is on the N wall of the chancel like the other in the opposite corner. EXTERIOR. In a recess on S side - the effigy of Alfred, Priest of Holcrombe C13. IN THE CHURCHYARD. Medieval churchyard cross, only the steps are original. Slab in the ground by Alfred, Priest effigy is probably to a Bagot, inscription is illegible. Slate headstone against W churchyard wall - Edward Burgess of Newton died Aug. 23 1777 aged 3, has this epitaph ‘I did just step one foot upon the stage, To View the World in this deplored age, The Wise disposer thought it best for me, To leave this World a better for to see.’ Fifty yards SW of the church - Edmund Burke Holland midshipman of H.M.S Bellerapham died of Yellow fever July 1 1804 at sea to Jamaica aged 15. Lewis Francis Bagot Rector of Church Leigh d1870. Henry Bagot 1810-1877. William 3rd lord Bagot d1887. William 4th Lord bagot 1857-1932. Gerald William 5th Baron Bagot 1866-1946. Caryl Ernest 6th Baron Bagot 1877-1961. Harry Eric 7th Baron Bagot 1894-1973. Kathleen Elizabeth Saddler Lady Bagot d1979. Also graves to other Bagots, some are just identifiable by their initals.

Blore (Ray)

CHURCH. St Bartholomew MEMORIALS. Monumental tomb with effigies of William Basset of Blore d1601 & wives Dame Judith Corbit d1640, Elizabeth Howard, also Elizabeth’s 1st husband, Hon. Henry Howard, & their children - James and an unnamed child, also Elizabeth Basset (sister of William Basset?). Thomas Thomkinson d1640. Richard Taylor d1737 also his father Richard d1749. Sarah Challinor (nee Taylor) d1746 also her mother Lydia d1762. Thomas Smith d1790 also William Smith d1797 also Elizabeth Smith d1802. John Sutton d1818 also Benjamin Sutton d1856 & wife Ann d1855. Sarah Ann Taylor of Calton d1885. Mary Anne Barlow d1891. Rev. John Young of Blore d1915. WW1 roll of honour.

Bloxwich

CHURCH. All Saints MEMORIALS. In the gallery - Mr William Parker (Merchant Taylor in London) gave £20 for a ministry at Great Bloxwich, & £50 to repair the chapel 1616. In the gallery - Catharine wife of Rev John Baylie d1853 & daughter Eleanor Tryhena d1838. Also in gallery - Crowther’s Charity Board - John Crowther of Wednesbury gave L2000 to the trustees, the will was proved 1857. Rev. John Baylie d1865. Albert Victor Wilkes 2nd Lt. in 1/5th Notts & Derbys Regt. d1918 at Bethune. WW1 roll of honour. A. Clifford Duesbury organist d1952 & wife Catherine Edith d1968. Priests chair - George Edward Pilbeam d1967. Sanctuary lamp & fittings - Grace Mary Jordan 1977. An incumbents board. GLASS MEMORIALS. Charles Somerville M.D. 1876. E window - Joseph & Ann Bealey 1877. Jane wife of Charles Somerville M.D. d1893. William Robert Lazenby of Bloxwich d1893. Richard & Ann Thomas of Teddesley House, Bloxwich 1895. John Smith Foster & wife Mary of Bloxwich Hall, also sons John Stokes Foster of Bentley House & Thomas Foster of Alveston Leys, nr Stratford-on-Avon 1895. Ann Smith Foster & John Stokes Foster 1905. Frederick & Thirza Thomas 1906. Joseph Harrison of Field house, Bloxwich. John & Mary Russell. Richard Harold Wilks 2nd Lieut 2/5 North Staffs Regt. d1917 France. David Hayward churchwarden 1930. NOTE. Two medieval beams formerly in the church were discovered in two old cottages by David Ebenezer Parry and were brought to the church after the cottages were destroyed, by his daughter Dorothy 1952, now erected on a wall in the gallery. IN THE CHURCHYARD. An C18-looking cross on medieval base. Samuel Wilks.

Blurton

CHURCH. St Bartholomew MEMORIALS David Bailey d1828 & wife Mary d1832. TILED MEMORIALS. Jonathan Lowe Chetham d1861. John Harvey d1863. Martha Oliver Hutchinson d1863. Elizabeth Chetham d1864. Rev John Hutchinson M.A. d1865. Emma Davis d1872. Hannah Prior d1874. Henry Moore, cannon & precentor of Lichfield Cathedral d1876. George Augustus Selwyn archbishop of NZ etc d1878. Alice Mary Ford d1881. Ann Bates d1882. Samuel Warren 1882. Elizabeth Warren 1884. John Bates d1884. Martha Laverick d1887. James Aynsley Chew d1888. Elizabeth Tuthill d1891. Rev. John Rogers Hutchinson d1892. Thomas Swift d1892. Ann Toft d1900. Mary Ford d1902. John Toft d1910. Ellen Reynolds d1922. GLASS MEMORIALS. Rev. John Rogers Hutchinson d1892. Sanford William Hutchinson d1919. John Gerrard Aynsley d1924. Caroline d1908 & William d1910 Hutchinson. FURNISHINGS. A commandments board. IN THE CHURCHYARD. Henry Heathcote of Longton Hall Major of the 88th Foot d1829 aged 41. John Brammer d1841 ‘The Grave at his feet was thrice opened within 10 months’ for his daughters Jane died Sept. 21 1833 aged 16, Eliza died June 19 1834 aged 12 & Hannah died July 5 1834 aged 22.

Blymhill

CHURCH. St Mary. MEMORIALS. Three coffin lids to bygone priests by the altar. Charity board - 1671 John Taylor, Mrs Manning, also an unknown person; who gave £10, board is of date 1820. Charity board - Sir Thomas Wilbraham gave in 1684, William Adams of Brineton 1718, Daniel Norris 1784, board is dated 1820. John Dickenson d1776. Samuel Cyrus d1777 aged three, & his sister Elizabeth Catherine d1776 aged one - the children of Rev. Samuel Dickenson. Rev. Henry Dickenson d1805 aged 26. Rev. Samuel Dickenson d1823, & wife Catherine d1812. Charity board - Rev. Samuel Dickenson, & Mrs Betty Cartwright 1824. John Horatio Dickenson, Curate & Rector d1854 & wife Susanna d1849. The Incorporated Society for Building & Churches granted £60 on condition 176 seats were made over to the poor for ever. Rood screen - Susannah Boultbee of Great Chatwell 1901. Ernest John Hales, Warws. Imperial Yeomanry chorister died of Enteric Fever 1902 aged 28 at Heilbron, S. Africa. Ernest Whitfield Moreton killed in action France 1918 aged 24 interred at Ecoust St Mein. Charles George Orlando Bridgeman, barrister, younger son of Hon. George Thomas Orlando Bridgeman, priest d1933. Ernest Richard Orlando Bridgeman, Rector d1940. Thomas Allen Moxon M.A. Rector 1941- 43. Major Roger Orlando Bridgeman only son of Sidney Bridgeman, The Rifle Brigade, & H.M. Prison Service. GLASS MEMORIALS. Emily Mary (nee Bagot), wife of Hon. George Thomas Orlando Bridgeman, Rector, d1853. N aisle window - Lady Lucy Caroline Bridgeman d1858 aged 32, & her sister Lady Charlotte Anne Bridgeman d1858 aged 31, both died by fire in the library of Weston House. Three windows in N aisle also bear their monograms. Hon. George Thomas Orlando Bridgeman, Rector 1853-64. E window - Sidney Bridgeman wife of Charles George Orlando Bridgeman d1936. FURNISHINGS. Piscina hidden beneath a cover which serves as a credence table. Oak chest. Ten miserere seats. Copy of a Mediaeval wood carving of the Nativity, probably given by a Bridgeman, during his rectorship. The wood used at the restoration of the interior roof, & pews is oak from Bagot Estate 1858. Copy of a painting by Caregio? - Holy Family with St Francis, late C19, probably given by a Bridgeman, during his rectorship. Round marble relief of an angel, no inscription, apparently given by Mrs B.B. Grey during her stay at the Rectory (1954-57), possibly by (of?) Carrara (?marble). IN THE CHURCHYARD. S wall of the chancel - Founder’s tomb in an arched recess containing coffin lid nearly worn away by dripping from a water pipe thought to be to the 1st rector. W window N aisle - carving, personally made by the church’s architect, G.E. Street, of the Adoration of the Magi.

Bobbington

CHURCH. Holy Cross MEMORIALS. Effigy of a man on slab in the porch - said to be Philip Fitz-Helgot d1213. Wooden board - Edward Careswell d1690 at Blacklands benefactor. Thomyns Dickins of the Middle Temple d1701. Edward Corbett of Blacklands in this parish & wife, he was of the ancient family of Corbett of Longnor in Salop, she of the family of Jewkes of Wolverley, Worcs. 1735. Edward Corbett sejeant at law of Blakelands d1752 & wife Mary daughter & coheiress of John Barstead of London, merchant d1736, erected by their son Charles Corbett. Charles Corbett of Blakelands d1786 erected by his sisters M. & H. Corbett. Mary d1792 & Hannah Corbett d1799 daughters of Edward Corbett of the Blacklands. Joseph Stokes he was ‘universally esteemed being strickly speaking an honest man’ d1806 & wife Mary d1816. Walter Henry Moseley of Leaton Hall d1827, also his mother Anne wife of James Moseley d1708, also Mary Anne 2nd daughter of William & H.E. Moseley d1832 aged 12 weeks, also Elizabeth wife of James Moseley d1832. William Moseley of Leaton Hall d1869. Part mosaic - Helen Elizabeth Moseley wife of William Moseley of Leaton Hall d1894. Eliza Rogers of Halfpenny Green d1905 bequested £500 to be distributed in coal to the poor. Helen Elizabeth Peel of Leaton Hall d1905. Pte. Thomas Morris 4th Worcs. Regt. reported missing in Dardanelles 1915. William Henry of Leaton Hall son of William & Helen Elizabeth Moseley d1919. Caroline daughter of William & Helen Elizabeth Moseley of Leaton Hall d1926. Hugh Simcock, Henley Simcock & Harry Simcock died in WW2. H.R.H. Prince William of Gloucester & his friend Lt. Commander Vyrell Mitchell R.N. (RET) died at Halfpenny Green when the Prince’s Aircraft crashed 28 Aug 1972. FURNISHING. C12 long oak chest. Font. IN THE CHURCHYARD. Stone coffin by the main footpath, taken from under the church. To what use could the curious mushroom-like stone stool be, by the porch?

Bradley

CHURCH. St Mary and All Saints MEMORIALS. Fragment of a coffin? cross? Fragment of Coffin lid with a fancy cross. Monument of two kneeling figures facing one another to Thomas Browne d1633. John Lake son of Richard Lake of Wollaston & Mary, d1695. Six benefactions boards - i) 1705, Mrs Ann Brown etc ii) Mrs Izabel Allport of Cannock iii) Edward Cartwright of Three Rivers, Canada d1832, left £25 iv) Mrs Ann Wright of Bellfields, 1855 v) Mr Richard Lake, will dated 1727 vi) Richard Savage of Liverpool 1782. Benjamin Cotton of Littywood d1748 & wife Mary d1774. Floor slab - Thomas Palin of Darnsda? d1749 & sister Mrs Constance Palin d1748. John Cotton of Littywood d1780 & wife Ann d1781. Edward Cotton eldest son of Benjamin Cotton d1781. Rev Walter Collins of Barton d1782 & wife Elizabeth d1787 & 2nd daughter Ann d1786. Rev Richard Lomas Lowe d1905. Prayer stall in memory of the same 1908. WW1 roll of honour. Rev. E.W. P. Keeling, vicar 1923-24. Alfred Holt of the Wells Farm, Bradley d1952. Rev. Harry Hadley Fox d1968. Thomas Williams of Billington Hall churchwarden d1979. GLASS MEMORIAL. E window dedicated to soldiers who died in WW1. FURNISHING. Font. NOTE. Fragment of a sundial. IN THE CHURCHYARD. Cross. Arrow sharpening marks on S side of tower. Against W chancel wall N side - The six children (2 girls, 4 boys) of Rev. Thomas & Elizabeth Browne, who all died 1807-1844 between the ages of 3 to 27, before their parents. Approx. 40 yards S of E end of the church - Ann Trickett d Nov. 26 1885 aged 73 erected as a token of affection by M ... M Gibbs of New York City.

Bradley, Bilston

CHURCH. St Martin. Demolished 1982 (BCM July 1982 pp54-57).

Bradley-in-the-Moors

CHURCH. St Leonard MEMORIALS. Thomas Holmes d1754 also son? - Thomas Holmes d1785 & wife Margaret d1787. Mary Smith d1756. George Talbot of Shropshire 1757 & wife Elizabeth d1771. William H? Bolines? of Cheadle-Eaves d1757. William Margaret & Mary Armishaw all d1762 also the parents Edward Armishaw d1808 & wife Thomazin d1818. Thomas Armishaw d1791 also son William d1796 also his wife, Mary d1815. William Holmes d1820 & wife Hannah d1854. Mary Louisa Whieldon d1827. Mary Whieldon d1854. Rev. Edward Whieldon, husband of Mary d1859. Adela Sarah Barnett (nee Whieldon ) d1865. William Coxon d1900 at Natal, also Arthur Kidd & John Titterton died in WW1. Frederick Davall d1955, also daughter Elsie Burton & her husband William Burton d1983. Richard Norman Allmond d1967. FURNISHINGS. Commandments board hidden by chest. Lords prayer board. IN THE CHURCHYARD. Anne Snape tomb d1307, but must be d1707!

Bramshall

CHURCH. St Lawrence MEMORIALS. Benefactions board - John Taylor & Thomas Wettwood gave by a deed dated 1565 money for the repair of the church.Roger Warner d1825 & wife Lydia d1860, also Thomas Fradgley of Uttoxeter d1883 & wife Clara d1893 & their infant son Thomas Warner Fradgley d1841. Rev. Charles John Pinfold d1856. Richard Minors d1860 & wife Mary d1871 & children Richard d1877, John d1884, William Towers d1904, Robert d1881, Elizabeth d1893 & Mary Ann d1884. Rev. Bennett Williams d1893. William Hollingsworth, Bertram Philip Taft, Ernet John Wood & Arthur Cotterill died in WW1. Cpl. Wilfred James Goodwin 5th East Yorkshire Regt. killed in action 1944 at Bemmel Holland. Children of Bramshall Sunday School contributed to the installation of the electric blower to organ 1946. Electric lighting - Joseph Archie Corbishley d1962 & wife Dorothy d1961. GLASS MEMORIALS. Figure of Alice Tame Lady Verney at prayer, & above three other ancient pieces of glass; two very dark pieces shaped like a B and a reversed B, armourial shield in top light. E window to commemorate the ministry of Rev. Roger Oakden vicar to 1915. FURNISHINGS. Reredos given by the Mother’s Union in 1923 & the carpet & altar rails in 1932, they also gave the Trinity Frontal with Burse & Veil. A framed colour etching of the church by F.E.W. Watts 1935. IN THE CHURCHYARD. Roger & John Warner twins both d1831 aged 18; Roger 9 June; John 16 July.

Brereton

CHURCH. St Michael MEMORIALS. Robert Simpson d1869 & wife Sarah Ann d1893 & youngest daughter Ellen Mary Crawford d1859 at Barrackpore, Bengal. Rev. John Holford Plant M.A. d1891. Arthur Legge Samson Capt 2nd Batt Royal Welsh Fusillers killed in action 1915, awarded the Military Cross. Rev. Edward Samson M.A. of Armitage Lodge d1921. GLASS MEMORIALS. William Taylor Smith d1849 & Mary Smith Smith d1878. E window S aisle - Charles John Chetwynd 19th Earl of Shrewsbury 1877. Frances Mary Turnor d1879 x 2. E window - Henry Ralph & Soby Rebecca Sneyd 188_. E window N aisle - Rev. J.E. Netherall M.A. Caroline Legge, wife of Hon A.C. Legge d1882. James & Mary Eagles of Rushall 1885. William Eagles of Leamington & also Henry & Maria Collett of Longdon 1885. Hon. A.C. Legge 1st Life Guards d1890. FURNISHINGS. The Stations of the Cross - Vera Stringer, Frederick Stringer & Gertrude Harvey. The Colours of the 2nd Royal Innskilling Fusilliers which rested in the church from 1888 to 1956 were removed to the Depot of the Regiment. The Colours of the 22nd Bombay Infantry also in the church, from 1897 to 1956 were placed in the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Museum for safe preservation. CURIOSA. A framed map of Southern Africa on which Dr David Livingstone marked his discoveries, it was presented to Redbrook Lane School in 1857. IN THE CHURCHYARD. Elizabeth daughter of Ralph Sneyd of Keele d1838 & her sister Henrietta d1852. John Burgess aged 36 & Thomas Burgess aged 28 killed in Brereton Colliery accident Feb. 6 1861 (info from Harry Thornton). S of the church a cast iron chest with crucifix on top - John Dean of The Hayes Collieries d1861 aged 18. Within a green railed area - Henry Ralph Sneyd d1872 & wife Soby Rebecca Sneyd d1875 & daughters Fanny Louisa Sneyd d1892, Harriet Anne Sobieska d1913. To W of the church - Herbert Cope died in an accident at Brereton Collieries Jan. 20 1885 aged 20. To W of the church - William Saunders killed by a gun accident July 8 1887. To W of church - Gen. Hon. Arthur G. Legge of Caynton, Salop d1890. George Marmaduke Cockin of Brereton Hall d1918. Some of the victims of a coach accident which claimed the lives of 12 returning from a holiday in Blackpool, killed less than a mile from arriving back in Rugeley Aug. 6 1940. (Thanks to Harry Thornton for a tour of the churchyard).

Brewood

CHURCH. St Mary and St Chad MEMORIALS. Incised slab on floor to Richard Lane d1518 & wife. Chest-tomb with three effigies on top - Sir John Giffard of Chillington d1556 & his two wives. Chest-tomb with three effigies on top - Sir Thomas Giffard of Chillington d1560 & his two wives. Jane Leyclon? married William Skeffington, she married 2nd, Edward Giffard d1572 - hard to read because of the old script. Chest-tomb with two effigies on top - John Gyfard (Giffard) of Chillington d1613 & wife d1608. Chest-tomb with 2 effigies on top - Walter Giffard of Chillington & wife, Philippa, daughter of Richard White d1636. Thomas Fowke of Brewood d1652 & wife Marie d1669 (she was sole daughter of Henry Ferrers of Badderly Clinton, Warks), they had 10 sons and three daughters. Above is a tablet in Latin to Thomas Fowke & wife Marie, the tablet was resituated? by Phineus Fowke M.D. in 1705. Sculptural coloured memorial consisting of two tiers of kneeling couples facing one another - Matthew Moreton of Engleton d1669 & wife Sarah d1672, also Edward Moreton of Engleton d1630 & wife Margerie d1633. Floor Slab - Edward Moreton of Engleton d1687. Modern tablet in memory of Colonel William Carlos 2nd son of John Careless of Broomhall in Brewood, Governor of Tonge Castle 1645 d1689. Below on paper in a frame a translationof the original Latin Grant of Arms to Clonel Carlos, now in the College of Arms, London. Phineas Fowke of Little Wirley M.D. fellow of the College of Physicians d1710, also Jane, daughter of John Holland of Brewood d1707, also her mother Anne, 2nd wife of Walter Fowke, father of D. Fowke d1715, also John Holland, son of Capt. Philip Holland d1721, Richard Holland M.D. son of John and Jane Holland d1730, also Fowke Holland, son of John & Jane Holland d1735, & Jane Holand wife of John Holland d1740. Stephen Onion d1727 & wife Anna, & Thomas Onion d1770. Floor slab - Mary Giffard, wife of Thomas Giffard of Chillington d1753. Floor slab - Catherine Collingwood d1776. The children of Edward & Sophia Moncton - Mary Leonora d1791, Claud d1814 at the Cape of Good Hope, Philip d1820 at Goruckpore in E. Indies, Sophia d1833, Edward, eldest son, succeeded his father at Somerford d1848, Hugh d1842, John d1852, Robert d1853, Henry of Stretton Hall d1854, George of Somerfield d1854, Leonora of Brewood Hall d1869, Emma Frances d1872, William d1874, & Anna Maria d1878. Right Rev. Charles Berington, Doctor of the University of Paris & RC Bishop of the Midland District, of the Beringtons of Moat Hall, Shrops d1798. John Perrott of Cannock d1802 & 1st wife Elizabeth & 2nd wife Elizabeth. Mary Countess Dowager of Cork and Orrery d1810. John Turner d1824 & wife Mary d1840. Edward Monckton of Somerford Hall, youngest son of John 1st Viscount Galway d1832 & wife Sophia d1834. Floor slab - John Giffard d1833 & wife Helena Mary d1837. Marianne Haden d1850. Rev. Alexander Burn Haden M.A. d1863. Tile - John Lonsdale Bishop of Lichfield d1867. Tile - George Augustus Selwyn d1878. Restoration of the church - William Parke 1878. Jeremia Smith 1879. The Pulpit in memory of two relatives who often worshiped in the church 1879. The stalls in place by Leveson Vernon resident at Hilton Park and at Brewood till 1887. Francis Machin d1908. Sound enhancement system in memory of Lilian Vera Lloyd-Davis & others 1988. In belfry 11 bell ringing notices. GLASS MEMORIALS. Charlotte Simpson d1875. Rebecca Smith d1879. James Hicks Smith d1881. Maria Smith (nee Lockhart) d1884. Marianna Eugenia Wrottesley d1892. Charles Docker d1893 & 1st wife Sarah d1877. Eliza Vile 1894. E window S aisle - Agnes Sophia Briscoe d1901. Rev. Edward John Wrottesley d1901, erected 1903. Frederick Joseph Keeling churchwarden d1911. Mary Anne Smith d1911. Dame Charlotte Armstrong d1912. Alan John Hay RN who went down on HMS Defence at Jutland 1916. Rev. Charles Dunkley 1927 x 2. Anne Dunkley 1927. Elizabeth Sarah Aldridge 1927. Stanley Jackson churchwarden d1971. FURNISHINGS. Large long black church chest with three locks. NOTE. Royal Arms of William & Mary (one of only two in the county, the other is at Keele) (Keele Church Guide. Christopher Harrison. 1988. p4). IN THE CHURCHYARD. Colonel William Carlos or Carless d1689. William Parke bookseller from Wolverhampton a friend of Dickens, Harrison Ainsworth & other eminent writers (BDH p144). John Taylor sculptor d1887. CHURCH. St Mary (R.C.) MEMORIALS. Large brass - Henry Whitgreave of Moseley d Aug. 13 1881 & wife Henrietta & sons George d1871 aged 29 & Thomas d1876 aged 26, & daughter Alice Charlton, & his 2nd wife Mary. Brass - Sarah Nickolds d1896. Brass portrait on marble surround of Rev. Father Louis Good R.D. 32 years paster of this church d1911. Organ rebuilt from one once in the proession of Cardinal Newman, blessed 22 June 1924 by Cardinal Bourne opened by Alderman F. Myatt J.P. Altar rail - Vincent Gosling d1945. GLASS MEMORIALS. W window to those who died in WW1. Mary Celeste Vaughan, Louise Mary Vaughan, Major Edmund Vaughan M.C., & Christine V. DeAroos erected by Major E.M. Vaughan D.S.O. & Mrs. Vaughan of Black Ladies 1924. George Evans & wife Elizabeth 1926. William Yates & wife Mary 1926. Mother Ann McDonnell d1940. Erected by Lieut. Col. Magrane, The Leys, Darlaston in memory of his wife Frances Eleanor & daughter Mary Charnley. PAINTING. Copy of Murillo’s Madonna & Child by Thomas Burton (1801-1883) of Turnham Hall.

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