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Calton

CHURCH. St Mary
MEMORIALS. Charity board - Catherine Port 1722, Rev John Ashton 1722, Rev John Holley (resigned 1860) gave £100, 1860. Charity Commissioners Scheme for the augumentation of the charities board, 1906. Font - John Sutcliffe, vicar 1880-85, erected by his son and daughter. Painting ‘The Great Sacrifice’ c1918 in memory of John Ernest Twigg killed at Neuve Chapelle 1915. Painting - the young Christ original copy in memory of James Critchlow Bowers, infant son of George Henry and Jessica Bowers of Leek and formerly of this parish. WW1 roll of honour. Communion chest - E.F.H. Charles Thomas Bold, aged 21, altar boy for 11 years, 1946. The bell cast in 1670 was recast in 1967 in memory of Charles Edward Bold. Tower striking clock - William and Eliza Higton Howson and his parents John and Elizabeth Howson, 1968. Chancel carpet given in memory of Hannah Mary Bold 1990.
GLASS MEMORIAL. Chancel glass - Jane Moors Wilmshurst. Elizabeth Croydon Payton, wife of Joseph Wattson Payton, vicar 1902-22.

Cannock

CHURCH. St Luke
MEMORIALS. Mary Warynge daughter of Richard Broughton & Anne (nee Bagot) d1613. Elizabeth Bagot daughter & heiress of Thomas Rotheram of Sommeresse, Beds. & wife of Col. Hervey Bagot of Pipe Hall, Warks. 2nd son of Sir Hervey Bagot of Blithfield, d1685. William Allport d1721, he gave his house & lands to churches in South Staffs. the will was proved at Alesbury, Bucks. Mrs Elianor Alport left her estate in Hammerwich to the ministers of Abbots Bromley, Sharshill, Penkridge, Copenhall, Weston-upon-Trent, Bradley, Castle Church, & Bloxwich 1730. William Finney d1743 & wife Dorothy d1773, also William Sirdefield d1782 & wife Anne d1785 also their daughters Anne d1746 & Dorothy Sirdefield d1769. Moreton Walhouse of Hatherton d1796 & son Moreton Walhouse of Hatherton d1821. Catherine daughter of Moreton & Frances Walhouse d1836, & her sister Ann Walhouse d1847. Anne Craycroft wife of Moreton Walhouse of Hatherton d1843. Penelope Perrot Feild d1849 & brother H.P. Feild d1810 & his wife Hannah d1821. John Walhouse, brother of Moreton Walhouse, d1855. Agnes wife of Joseph Craddock of Merthyr Tydfil d1892. Mary Alice Robinson d1896. Bernard Gilpin of Longford, Cannock d1902. Napier Henry Walker d1915, schoolmaster of Cannock Walhouse National School. Harold Yates of S. Staffs. Regt. d1917 buried at Bernes, France. WW1 roll of honour & a brass plaque. Jesse Watson Bird, choir boy d1921. Amplifying system - Napier Henry & Margaret Walker, Kate Walker, & the Walker family 1962. The Aumery in the memorial chapel - Mary & Harry Edge 1963. The chiming & striking mechanism of the clock - Laura Barnes d1963. Plaque in rememberance of the visit to the church by HRH Prince of Wales 15 July 1977. Incumbents board.
GLASS MEMORIALS. E window - Samuel Loxton d1895. Charles Edward Holden Loxton, killed in action 1915 at Wulverghem. WW1 dead - two windows.
FURNISHINGS. Oak chest with two compartments five lock points. Brass Commandment boards.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. Samuel Lord d1857 racehorse trainer. Against a wall in S corner there are four plaques to members of the Ancient Order of Foresters.
NOTE. Legend has it that a secret tunnel ran from Leacroft Hall to Cannock church & another tunnel connected Cannock church with Penkridge church (CCF p60 - Wright is very sceptical of the story).

Canwell

CHURCH. St Mary, St Giles and All Saints
MEMORIALS. Font - A.B. Foster & erected by Frederic Charles Foster 1911. WW1 & WW2 rolls of honour. Philip Staveley Foster of Canwell Hall d1933. Brian Woolley choirister d1946, aged 13. Christopher Roy Jardine d1957 aged 27. The Arundel Frontal - Margaret Jane Montgomery d1961 & son Terence James Peyton d1943. The Fairford Frontal - Thomas Isador Travers OBE d1964, & five others. George Rust chorister & churchwarden to 1966. Winifred Taylor churchwarden to 1982. The White Frontal - Louise Fowler 1988. Heaters - Tom Nicholls chorister to 1988.
GLASS MEMORIALS. W window - Louisa Anne Savage Wemyss d1898, & Francis Charteris Wemyss d1905. E window - Abram Bhoos Foster of Canwell Hall d1904 & wife Rosamund S. Foster. Philip Staveley Foster d1933. Amy wife of William C.G. Ludford d1937 (illustration of Amy in the glass).
NOTE. A memorial to Mrs E. Cresswell 1967 taken from the Philph Foster School which closed c.1980. Also the school bell.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. John Edward Simpson of Home Farm accidentally killed in a car crash on A446 Nov. 24 1969, also his eldest son Edward John accidentally killed in a car crash on A5 at Weeford Dec. 10 1972 aged 19, also his younger son David Antony suddenly 6 July 1976 aged 19 (TH Dec. 15 1972).

Castle Church

CHURCH. St Mary
MEMORIALS. Mysterious decorated slab inserted in W wall, could be a Norman coffin lid? Francis Chamberlin of Doxey 1628, gave to the poor (rather illegible). William Goldsmith of Silkmore d1702, gave to the poor £10. William Haddersich d1809 & wife Elizabeth d1803 & daughter Ann d1803. Mary wife of Joseph Boulton of Borough of Stafford, eldest daughter of John & Sarah Hubball of Brickhouse, d1817, also children Sarah d1804, William d1811 aged 3, Joseph d1816, Mary d1817 - all died in infancy. Isabella Morris wife of Rev. John Morris of Milton-Bryam, Beds., d1821, also Rebecca wife of Benjamin Rogers of Hough Cottage, Stafford, daughter of Isabella Morris d1828. William Haddersich d1825, only descendent of William & Catherine Haddersich of Rickerscote, d1841 & his wife Catherine d1846. To the benefactors who paid for the rebuilding of church 1845. Rev. Robert Anlezack M.A. d1845 & wife Beatrice Anlezack d1855. The N aisle - Rev. Edward Allen M.A. FRAS vicar to 1892 & son Rev. William Allen M.A. vicar to 1894. Seats in N aisle - David Hollin of Highfield Manor 1912. Field cross of Richard Gordon Bagnall killed in action July 1916, serving for Royal Garrison Artillery. Guy Edwin Bostock 2nd son of Edwin & Edith Bostock, Capt. 8th Batt. Royal Munster Fusiliers killed in action , Loos 1916. The brothers, Vincent Uzielli, Guy Hegan, & Ronald Terence Bloor, all died in WW1. WW1 roll of honour. Screen - Prebj Scott D.D. vicar to 1929. Incumbents board list starts with vicar of 1567.
GLASS MEMORIAL. Mary Smallwood 1963.
FURNISHINGS. Commandment boards.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. A living 1000 year old oak girth approx 18 feet hollow inside, very gnarled. Thomas Mulock d1869 (father of the novelist Mrs Craik).

Cauldon

CHURCH. St Mary and St Laurence
MEMORIALS. William Marshall of Nitaker Hill, Derbys. d1800. Sampson Wheildon d1807 also wife Ann d1819. Sarah wife of Joseph Almond Cropper of Loughborough d1814 aged 27 & her mother Helen wife of Samuel Boden of Garstone, nr Cauldon d1815. Jane Wilmott d1843. Rev. W. Montagu J. Heather d1888 buried at Cowleigh, Great Malvern. Robert Shilcock churchwarden d1893. WW1 roll of honour for men of Cauldon and Cauldon Low Quarries, erected 1926. Cuthbert Chalmers Brown A.M.I.C.E. 4th son of George James Brown of Westminster S.W. Egyptian Public Works 1906-14, Engineer in charge of Cauldon Quarries 1919-29 d1929. Side altar - men who gave their lives in both world wars. Organ to those who died & served in WW2. Incumbents list.
GLASS MEMORIAL. E window - Herbert & Elizabeth Warrington 1936.
FURNISHINGS. Commandments boards. Royal Coat of Arms of George IV, 1820.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. Margaret Manifold 1750. Rev. Thomas Prince d1757.

Caverswall

CHURCH. St Peter
MEMORIALS. Very mutilated incised effigies by altar. George Cradock d1643 & wife Dorothy & son George Cradock. Matthew Cradock & Elizabeth. Henry Harworth d1667. John Browne of Hartwell - he gave to the poor 1670, & Thomas Browne & Margery, Ralph Browne & Mary, Ralph Browne & Dorothy, Ralph Browne & Joyce, Ralph Browne, Ralph Browne, John Browne. George Parker d1675, also William Parker d1703, also Bridget Parker d1702. George Parker of Park Hall d1716 & wife, Margaret d1745/6 (nee Turton), also Thomas Parker of Park Hall, eldest son of Sir Thomas Parker d1797 & wife Mary, daughter of John Hawe of Caldmore, Staffs d1815, also Robert Parker d1807, also Thomas Hawe Parker of Park Hall d1856. In the tower - Edward Hordern of Hulme d1736. A memorial too high to read in the chancel - it has a coat of arms date may be 1772? Sir Thomas Parker, 2nd son of George Parker of Park Hall d1784, & wife Margaret & 1st wife Anne (nee Whitehall of Pipe Ridware) d1739, & sons Thomas, George, who was father of Sir William Parker Bart, Admiral of the Fleet & Sir Thomas Parker’s 2nd wife Martha (nee Strong of Greenwich) & their daughters, Martha, who married Sir John Jervis (Earl St Vincent), & Laetitia, who married Thomas Heathcote. In the tower - Rev. St. George Bowles d1804. Also in the tower - Elizabeth Eddowes d1811 & daughter Mary d1814 & daughter, Elizabeth d1814 & husband of 1st Elizabeth Rev. William Eddows d1824. Martha Countess of St Vincent d1816 - sculpture of a woman kneeling. In the tower - Rev. Walter Eddowes A.B also Rev. William Eddowes A.B. d1817 & wife Elizabeth, also William Eddowes, son of Rev. Walter Eddowes, & wife Jane d1817. Eliza Parker d1826. Harriet Parker d1832 & sister Mary Anne married Edward Jervis Jervis Viscount st Vincent d1855, & sister. Benefactions board - John Brown & Ralph Brown, Gilford Hart, Ralph Bayley, Mrs Bridgett Parker & Miss Harriet Parker 1832. Joseph Wilshaw? of Meir d1844 & wife Catherine d1845, he bequeathed £200. William Aubrey Bowers of 5th N. Staffs. Regt. d1916 Gommecourt, France. WW1 roll of honour & another for WW2.
GLASS MEMORIALS. Thomas Edward Coyney of Selwood House, nr Rugeley d1871. Charles Coyney of Weston Coyney d1883. Stephen Mear of Weston Coyney Villa d1886. In the tower - Rev. Francis Aspinwall Goddard d1888. Walter Hill Coyney & wife Mary Catherine 1894. E window - Viscount St. Vincent 1903. Alice Bowers of Caverswall Castle d1905, Sidmouth. William C. Bowers of Caverswall Castle d1911. A window restored in memory of Alfred Boardman 1974.
FURNISHING. Commandments board & Lord’s Prayer board.
NOTE. Norman Tympanum. Gargoyle fragment inserted in wall at end of the nave.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. Mary Bullock 1334, a mistake in the date? Henry Plunkett d1849, possibly saved Wellington’s life at Waterloo.

Chadsmoor

CHURCH. St Chad. 1892.
MEMORIALS. Money ran out as the church was being built and further benefactors had their names carved into grey bricks the lettering painted gold, the bricks form a band around the whole interior of the church. Foundation stone laid by Mrs Bumsted of Rokholt, Cannock, Easter Monday 30 March 1891. Foundation stone laid by Lady Hatherton, Easter Monday 30 March 1891. Mary Anne Robinson d1898. Lectern - Mary Martha Morris 1906. Albert Joseph Marston Nº24365 1st S. Staffs. Regt. d1916 killed near Combles aged 26. Screen & rood - WW1 dead. Thomas Ball d1919 Sunday school teacher. Margaret Reade d1920. Thomas Hill, bricklayer of this parish superintended building of this church d1920 & wife Eliza (Atkins) d1943. Mary Hawkins d1921 & husband John d1929. Processional cross - Francis Tavernor & Emma Tavernor 1924. Pannelling around altar - WW2 dead. Flower stone box vase - Sharon Drennan d1984 aged 26. Chair - Harold J. Tooth d1985. Altar - Arthur Hayward, organist & choirmaster.
GLASS MEMORIAL. Side lancet windows from the old church - James Benton of Red Hill d1910.

Chapel Chorlton

CHURCH. St Lawrence
MEMORIALS. Francis Carlose d1722/3. Elizabeth Lander d1764. Elizabeth Brittain d1855, also Hugh Brittain d1874, also Joseph Brittain d1874. Three Caustic tile plaques - Susanna Sutton school mistress d1885. Annie Sutton d1889. Katherine Mary Sutton school mistress d1910. Font was restored & replaced in memory of Joseph & Hugh Brittain 1887 - a very old sandstone font basin sits on Victorian base. Rev. Owen Charles Selby Lownes M.A. d1914. WW1 roll of honour.
GLASS MEMORIALS. E window - could not be read - 1903? Rev. Horace T. Pauh vicar from 1922-1930.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. Rev. Joseph Delves tomb (DoE II).

Chasetown

CHURCH. St Anne
MEMORIALS. John Robinson McLean MP for East Staffs. Fellow of the Royal Society President of the Institution of Civil Engineers d1873. Bust of John Robinson McLean. Christopher Harvey d1914, churchwarden. Arthur Sopwith d1920 & wife Catherine d1916. Pulpit fall tapestry made 1961/62 by Barbara Marshall (nee) Colbowne in memory of her grandmother Emma Colbowne. Facility rooms conversion were dedicated by Rt. Rev. Keith Sutton Bp. of Lichfield 1985. Rev. John Montague Seaton M.A. Hereford Coll. Oxon. Pannelling - William & Pat Ferneyhough & others.
MEMORIAL ON EXTERIOR WALL. N wall - Four plaques to those who died in WW1 listed under the particular pits in which they worked.
PAINTINGS by John L. Reilly - ‘The Holy Family after Murillo’ 1905, & ‘Christ Blessing the Children’ 1917.
CURIO. Example of the cable in a glass case which supplied this church from 1883 with electricity, making it one of the first churches in the World to be lit by electricity.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. Enoch Bernard Hall killed at Nº 5 Pit Aug. 29 1908 aged 17. Thomas Grundy killed in an accident at Huntington Colliery Nov. 29 1910 aged 37. (Guide to the church. P.W. Shelley. 1992).

Cheadle

CHURCH. St Giles (Anglican)
MEMORIALS. Robert Shenton d1726. Rupert Hurst d1743 & wife Anne d1759 & son Thomas Hurst d1816. Woodbead family memorial erected 1770, the remains of 10 members of the family lie in the churchyard, Edward Leigh Woodbead & children & wife Anne. Thomas Silvester d1770 & wife, Mary d1808, also Henry Yeomans d1801 & wife Dorothy d1781, also daughter Mary d1820. Mary Child d1788 also her son John Child (the elder) d1798, also John (the senior) d1802, also his daughter, Elizabeth Brandon d1818, also Yeomans Child d1819 also Elizabeth’s son Thomas Ford Brandon d1821 & Elizabeth d1838 & her husband Thomas Brandon (the 2nd) d1853. William Ingleby d1819 & wife, Anne d1828. William Chawner of Denstone Hall d1833. Samuel Boden of Rock Cliff d1856 & his bequeathment of £100. Charlotte Plant d1869 - nurse to the Earl of Belfast and his sister, Lady Harriet Ashley. Thomas Walters d1888. Rev Richard Rawle, Anglican Bishop of Trinidad 1872-1888 d1889. Ellen Walter wife of Thomas d1890. William Malkin of Rock Cliff d1891. Lydia Malkin wife of William d1896. Maria Jane Keates erected 1904. Isaac Arnold Cooper d1912. Charles John Blagg of Greenhill d1915 & wife Frances Caroline d1896, also William Aubrey Bowers killed 1916, John Addenbrooke killed 1916, Charles John Beech Masefield d1917 all held commissions in the N. Staffs. Regt. Prayer rest - William & Eleanor Pyatt 1930. Painting presented by Rev. George R. Thornton rector 1936-41 to commemorate the coronation of King George VI & Queen Elizabeth 1937.
GLASS MEMORIALS. William Wiggin d1862. Henry Langley Webb surgeon d1903. Sir Henry Wiggin Baronet d1905. Alice Maud Shenton d1946 & Marianne Frances Shenton d1976. Modern glass representing various views of Cheadle presented to commemorate Cheadle Rural District Council 1894-1974 in memory of Margaret Evangeline Blizzard d1972. C.J.B. Masefield, W.A. Bowers, J.H. Addenbrooke. W window in gallery - Rev. Ronald Hardman Farhurst, headmaster of Bishop Rawle School 1977-82 d1982?
FURNISHINGS. Church chest.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. George Wood d1716. Rev. John Ward d1792. Joseph Atkinson died July 7 1818. Martha Brough d1836 aged 101. Lieut. Thomas Blood d1840 a veteran of Waterloo & other battles. Rev. John Pike Jones d1857. Mary Wright d1866. William Allen d1871 & wife Maria d1870 & her sister Miss Shepherd d1876.

CHURCH. St Giles (R.C.)
MEMORIALS. Arthur Killingworth Bourne 1816. Samuel Burton d1932 & wife Mary Ellen d1921.
FURNISHINGS. Pulpit was carved in situ by Thomas Roddis from on block of stone. Altar was formerly from St Wilfred, Cotton installed 1990. Painting of the Doom of Judgement over the chancel arch is by Hauser (Lady Gwendoline Talbot, daughter of the Earl is seen in the corner on Christ’s right, amongst those to be saved).

CHURCH. Bethel Congregational, Tape St.
IN THE CEMETERY. William Machin killed in the Woodhead Colliery March 30 1863 aged 11.

Chebsey

CHURCH. All Saints
MEMORIALS. Broken up effigy and fragments of Saxon? masonary with carving in vault with a table slab bearing a cross. Anna Swan Dixon of Hilcot Hall d1857 & husband William d1867. Wife of Thomas Robinson of Walton Grove d1860. Mary Elizabeth Robinson of Pye Birch Manor d1871, 2nd wife of Thomas Robinson. WW1 & WW2 roll of honour. Montague Wriothesley Noel died at sea 1941.
GLASS MEMORIALS. Charlotte Ripley 1901. Moray Stuart Patterson 1936 & Rev Charles (perhaps also Patterson) vicar to 1930. Rev Charles Lumley vicar to 1942. James Cadman d1947. Edith May Lumley d1959 - the tiny window.

Checkley

CHURCH. St Mary
MEMORIALS. Cross-legged Knight, early C14. Effigy of Godfrey Foljambe d1560 & wife Margaret d15?4. Very worn tablet to Thomae Bronene ? Genimuier ? of Oversoal ? d1713. Ralph Turner, father of William, d1729 - the main tablet above, persumably toWilliam, has been removed. Nathaniel Philips of the Heath House d1757 & wife Elizabeth d1700, also son John d1777, & his wife Susannah d1767, & their son John d1815, & his wife Catherine d1818, & his nephew John d1854, & his wife Margaret d1824, also John Burton Philips d1862, & wife, Joanna Freeman d1858, also the Hon. Esther Fanny Philips of The Heath House d1881, also son, Montagu Capel Philips d1881, also John Capel Philips d1905. Inside the window behind organ - Mary Galliner? daughter of William Turner d1760. George Boulton Phillips d1765 & sister Mary b1743, also William Phillips of the Bank, Nether Tean d1846 & wife Prudence d1851, & Mary Ann Phillips d1776, & Capt. John Phillips, adjutant of King’s Own Staffs Militia d1841. William Phillips of the Bank, Nether Tean d1772 & son William Lieut. of marines H.M.S. Triton d1756, & wife Helen, also Thomas Phillips b1535, & wife Mary. William Wood of Upper Tean d1794 & wife Mary d1836, & son John d1810 & his son William d1843, also John Rylands of Warrington, Lancs, who married the widow of William Wood (senior) d1815. Rev. Charles Benjamin Charlewood M.A. of Oak Hill in Checkley d1842 & wife Jane d1798, & children, Mary d1795, Charles Benjamin d1817, Sarah d1872 & her husband Charles William Marim, & his 2nd wife Mary Anne & their children Mary Anne d1894, George d1840, Major John in HM 56th Regt. d1890, Catherine d1842, Rev. Thomas d1877, Henry d1885, Admiral Edward Philips d1894, Sophia Margaret d1841. Robert Philips of Heybridge d1853 & wife Laetitia d1882. Organ presented by William & Jane Margaret Vernon in commemoration of their 50th wedding anniversary 1907. Mark Hibbert Philips & all the men who gave their lives in WW1. 2nd Lieut. Richard Edward Anthony Philips killed at El Alamein 1942. Heating system - John & Olive Bagnall 1959. Reeds of the organ were restored in memory of Anthony Burton Capel Philips d1983. Green nave alter frontal given in memory of Cyril Kinder d1987.
FLOOR SLABS. James Whivham? d1644. Philip Forster Smith of Beamhurst d1745 & wife Ann Smith d1762, daughter of Christopher Pegge of Beauchief Abbey, Derbys., & Mary widow of Henry Mountford, d1840?. Ann Mountfort of Beamhurst Hall d1834 & sons Simon Smith d1809, Richard d1812, & Henry d1872. The inscription on one slab is totally worn away.
GLASS MEMORIALS. Ancient glass depicting the seasons in roundels. William Grosvenor Jennings d1905. Reuben Gallimore d1907. Window to those died in WW1. Mark Hibbert Philips.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. Children of Edward & Caroline Whiting - Sem 9, Elizabeth Ada 7, Arthur Frederick 5, all drowned in their garden pond Dec. 3 1893.

Cheddleton

CHURCH. St Edward
MEMORIALS. Fynney brass tablet (Augustus & Fielding Best Fynney) tells of how they are descended from Baron Fenis at the time of the Norman Conquest. Edward Arblaster of Ronall d1783. Robert Powys d1798 also Emily Powys d1803 & Henry Powys, clerk of Stoke-Golding, Leics. d1825. George Allen of Felthouse d1824, Henry Harris of Consall Old Hall d1756 & son John 1761. Mary Leigh of Consall New Hall d1833. Katherine Winifred Ridgeway of Heath House d1892. Rev. Alfred Francis Boucher d1898 - also monogram under the tower AFB. James Barber of Stonelegh gift of the electric lighting as a thanks giving on the occasion of his golden wedding anniversary 1931. Hollins family of Mosslee. Sanctuary improvements - Joseph Herbert Bowman d1972.
GLASS MEMORIALS. Mary Powys d1817. Edward Powys d1819. Edward Powys d1819. John Ansdell of Glasllyn 1846. E window - Sarah Margaret Powys ? & husband Thomas Powys 1850. Thomas Powys d1853. Anne wife of Rev. A.F. Bovgher d1868. Ralph & Elizabeth Leek of Heath House given by Mrs Elizabeth Wardle, d1871 at Leek. E window N aisle - Martha Phoebe Wardle 1892. Edwin Heaton of Basford Hurst & wife Elizabeth 1897. William Henry Rider of Basford Hurst d1909. E window S aisle - James & Bertha Barber of Stoneleghe, Cheddleton.
FURNISHINGS. The lectern was brought from Belgium by Rev. C.S. Hassalls of Foxearth Hall.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. A battlecross (wooden inserted into a stone hooded cover) to Capt. Thomas Humphrey Sneyd 4th Batt. Lancashire Fusiliers of Ashcombe Park died & buried at Ploesteert 1914. The Cross was made by men in his regiment, situated W side of porch.

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