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Talk o th Hill

CHURCH. St Martin. 1552. Rb 1749. Constituted a parish church 1859.
MEMORIALS. James Caldwell of Linley Wood, Magistrate & Recorder of Newcastle-u-Lyme d1838 buried at Audley, & wife Elizabeth d1831. James Stamford Caldwell of Linley Wood d1858 & his sister Anne Marsh Caldwell of Linley Wood, widow of Arthur Cuthbert Marsh d1874. George Johnson Manger of the North Staffordshire Coal & Iron Company Ltd Talk o th Hill d1868 aged 46 buried in the churchyard. Mark Wilks Mac Hutchin d1906 & to all those lost lives in the various colliery disasters in parish Talke, the bells were erected in this church Sept. 15 1906. Eliza Louisa Marsh Caldwell d1913, Georgina Amelia Marsh Caldwell d1900, Rosamond Jane Marsh Caldwell d1911, all daughters of Arthur Cuthbert Marsh & wife Anne. William Dale, sexton d1918. WW1 Roll of Honour in wooden panelling around altar. Major General F.C. Heath-Caldwell of Linley Wood C.B. Royal Engineers d Sept. 18 1945. Incumbents plaque (in 1646 W. Kelsall was ejected).
GLASS MEMORIALS. One window commemorates two local disasters - i) Aug. 1782 a gunpowder wagon exploded, George III ordered a collection; ii) Dec. 13 1866 Talk o th Hill Pit which killed 91 men, Queen Victoria ordered a fund to help. W window depicts St Martin - Rev. John Henry Lilwall Edwards M.A. & wife Helen, 1950. Another window in memory of the Mining Industry & St Saviour’s Church, Butt Lane, restored 1975.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. William Hamilton accidently killed at Woodshutts Colliery July 14 1863 aged 23. Joseph Yoxall, John Samuel Kenyon lost their lives in the Talk o th Hill Explosion Dec. 13 1866 aged 32. Job Cooper accidently killed in the mines of N. Staffs. Coal & Iron Company July 23 1868 aged 12. Frank Birchall killed in the Talk o th Hill Explosion Feb. 18 1873 aged 15. Richard Jackson killed in Bunkers Hill Colliery Explosion April 30 1875. Nathaniel Clarke in an accident at Talk o th Hill Colliery 13 June 1890. Annie Julia wife of Rev. Mark W. Mac Hutchin d1903 neice of the last Earl of Egremont. Isaac Cartlidge lost his life at Jamage Colliery Sept. 9 1907 aged 28.

CHURCH. St Saviour. 1879. Demolished 1971 (BOE p274). At Butt Lane?

Tamworth

CHURCH. St Editha (Survey by BMSGH)
MEMORIALS. Effigy in a tomb recess of Lady Joan de Freville d1339. Effigy in a tomb recess of Baldwin de Witney d1369. Effigies in a tomb recess of Sir Baldwin Freville d1400 & his wife. Effigy in a tomb recess of Sir John (Thomas in BMSGH) Ferrers d1512 & wife Ann. Henry Michell J.P. d1629 & 1st wife Margaret by whom he had three sons & seven daughters & 2nd wife Katherine. Elizabeth daughter of William Noel of Kirkby, Leics. wife of Ralph Adderley of Alderwas, Staffs. & son Charles, later married to Ralph Flyer of Hints d1661. Robert Cumberford of Cumberford (Comberford) d1671 & wife Catherine Bates & daughters Mary & Anna, who joined the Jacobite Cause & escaped to Scotland & later joined James II in the Province of Champagne, France? (Latin). John Ferrers d1680 & wife Elizabeth Gervasi Pigot of Thrumpton, Notts. & son Humphrey Ferrers d1678 (Latin). Thomas Willington of Whateley, Warws. d1696, & wife Mary daughter of John Swynfen of Swynfen d1711. Samuel Knight of Tamworth 3rd in descent from & heir to Thomas Knight of Bath d1734 & wife Judith d1777 (granddaughter of John Voughton of Wigginton, who was the senior maternal uncle of Thomas Guy of London, founder of Guy’s Hospital), memorial erected 1848 by Joseph Knight of Aylestone Hall & Glen Parva Manor, Leics. their sole male heir representative & preferred by Guy & eldest linear descendent of the families of Voungton & Knight. Edward Wolferstan d1761 2nd son of Rev. Stanford Wolferstan of Wootton, Warws. & wife Alice d1766. John Homer d1769 (Latin). Ruth wife of James Oldershaw, surgeon & daughter of John Wilcockson of Wirksworth, Derbys. d1781 also James Oldershaw d1788. Elizabeth wife of William Paul d1787 aged 23 & their infant children Mary & Jane, also William Paul d1816 & his son Samuel Joseph d1818 aged 14, Elizabeth wife of William Paul d1821. John Whyle d1788 & his sister Mary Haywood d1788. Sarah Eliza wife of Henry Alford of Inner Temple, London, 3rd daughter of Thomas Bradley Paget of Comberford Hall d1811, aged 22. William Allport (of Comberford) d1813. John Clarke M.D. of London & Wigginton Lodge d1818. John Freeman Major in his Majesties 13th Regt. of Foot d1823. William Brown of Arkall House d1826 & son Benjamin Bickley Brown d1816 aged 9. Charles Edward Repington of Amington Hall d1837. Rev. Francis Blick d1842. Katherine Jesse wife of Charles Edward Repington d1847 at Clifton. Waldyve Henry, 2nd son of Francis Willington died of a fever at St John’s Coll. Camb. 1850 aged 19. Very high on wall - Richard Francis Alexander Freeman d1852 & wife Harriet d1865. Admiral Edward Henry A. Court Repinton Borne Heytesbury, Wilts. d1855 Amington. Gen. Charles Ashe A Court Repington d1861 at Amington. Mary, wife of Rev. F.P. Willington d1877 at Worton Rectory, Oxon. Francis Willington d1881, & wife Jane Anne d1880. Two candlesticks on altar - i) Anne Tempest d1888 ii) William Tempest d1911. Alexander Gott M.A. Trin. Coll. Camb. assistant priest d1889 aged 29. Francis Edward Haviland assistant priest d1892 aged 28. Catherine & Frances Buckerfield benefactors 1896. Prayer stool - Sarah Ann Parker d1898. Elizabeth Catherine Blood d1899. Pte. H. Johnson of C Company 2nd V.B. Prince of Wales N. Stafford Regt. d1901 in S. Africa. William Henry Grix d1903, & wife Patience d1922. Thomas Cope d1907, chorister. Figures of the Blessed Virgin & St Editha gifts of the mothers of the parish 1900-10. Vicars chair - Rev. J.H. Courtney Clarke 1896-1915. Capt. John Jenkinson of Hopwas, C Company 1/6 Batt N. Staffs. Regt. killed on attack of Hohenzollern Redoubt, Hulluck, France 1915. John James Wilder Lassetter 2nd Lieut. N. Lancs. Regt. killed in action on the Diala River, Mesopotamia 1917, chorister. George Allan Westbury of the Sherwood Forresters, chorister d1917 in France. Robert Nevill M.C. South Lancs. Regt. killed in action 1918. WW1 roll of honour. Elizabeth Hinckley donator to fund for repair of church d1924. Rev. John Henry Courtney Clark d1925 - figures of St Gabriel & St Michael, were placed here 1927. Joshua Smith Hunt d1926, chorister. Rev. Ernest Henry Rogers, Rural Dean of Tamworth 1922-36. Elizabeth Annie, wife of Charles Edward Crutchley d1937. Edward Wainwright d1940, chorister. Thomas William Brittain Sgt. Bombardier Royal Air Force killed in flying accident 1943 aged 20. WW2 roll of honour. Henry Charles Mitchell of Tamworth d1947. Oak bench - Arthur McCreery Coxon vicar & Rural Dean of Tamworth 1936-49, prebendary of Longdon in Lichfield Cathedral. Prayer stool - Alice Evelyn Argyle 1st woman mayor of Tamworth d1950 bequeathed a legacy to restored E window in memory of her mother Annie Kate Argyle d1899. And in memory of her father Edward Argyle d1925. Book on altar in St George’s Chapel - E. Ellen Cripwell d1953. Oak panelling - Henry Rose A.R.C. organist & choirmaster d1955. Standard presented to the Lichfield Division by the Tamworth & District Girl Guides Local Ass. in memory of Miss Phyllis Vincent 1967. Roof restored 1972 as memorial to Rev. Alfred Jones d1969. Lectern - Judith Roberts d1972 aged 14 - given by staff & pupils of Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, The Mercian School, Perrycroft School. Restoration of the tower & glass in W window - plaque unveiled by Princess Margaret 1975. William Henry Webster d1975, chorister for 73 years. Rev. James Ogilvy Millar L.L.D. Font cover - Harry Oliver, churchwarden. Seventy chairs with brass plaques on the back. Incumbents board - deans & vicars.
ON OUTSIDE OF PORCH. Charlotte Byng wife of Rev. John Byng d1781, Mary Harding d1799, William Harding d1802, Rev. John Byng d1827. In a vault near this spot marked P are desposited the remains of James Pipe d1838, John Pipe d1807, Sarah Pipe d17899, Joseph Pipe d1807 aged 23, Elizabeth wife of John Ashmally & daughter of John & Sarah Pipe d1807 aged 32, Marianna Emily, Elizabeth & Thomas children of Thomas & Joanna Pipe. Charles Harding of Bole Hall d1868 & wife Ellen Harding d1872 & their infant daughter Charlotte d1810.
GLASS MEMORIALS. Alice 1st wife of Richard Francis Alexender Freeman d1815 also Richard Francis Alexander Freeman. John Harding of Bonehill d1844 & wife Margaret d1833, buried with their six children in a vault in N porch. Walyve Henry Willington d1850 aged 19. Right Hon. William Yates Peel d1858 & wife Lady Jane Elizabeth d1847. Francis Blick & wife Anne also Robert Watkin Lloyd & wife Anne 1871. E window in N chapel - John Peel M.P. d1872. P. Rawle, Anglican Bishop of Trinidad 1872. Francis Willington J.P. d1881, & wife Jane Anne d1880. Rev. Brooke Lambert M.A. D.D. d1901. Hon. Rev. Maurice Berkeley Peel M.C. chaplain in WW1 & killed while tending the wounded 1917. To those who died in WW1. Emma Pipe Cooke 1925. Esther Dean d1939. Helen Grace Milligan & John Curzon Shaw children of John & Emily Shaw, erected by James Milligan of Tuticorin, India. Joseph Gray. A window given by the parishioners.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. Katherine Oakes & her sister Anne & three of Katherine’s children , all died within 12 months of each other in 1741. John Corby of London d1819 (the stonemason was one Henry Mitchell of Tamworth when aged 14 (1820), an apprentice who had written far beneath the script on that bit of stone normally below ground level, ‘Stop, spectator and this grave view The next thats made may be for you’). Six female servants who perished in the fire at the Castle Inn Nov. 2 1838 (VB p32). Edward (Ned) Farmer d1876. Albert Burton drowned whilst bathing in the R. Anker Sept. 3 1878 aged 12.

CHURCH. New Meeting House, Victoria Road. 1724. (Information from NCSS p220)
MEMORIALS. William Harding d1802 & son Thomas d1801. Thomas Byng d1822 & daughter Anne d1827, also Thomas Gwyllym Byng d1829 & Elizabeth Byng d1829. John Lakin d1825 & wife Elizabeth d1824. Rev. John Byng d1827. Henrietta, daughter of Rev. John Byng d1827. Joseph Clarson d1831 & wife Sarah d1860 & son David d1827. Sarah Lakin d1831. Benjamin Shelton d1833 & wife Catherine d1829. Thomas Brittan Willcox d1840. Henry Lakin d1846 & wife Anne Isabella d1863. Rev. William Parkinson d1857. John Lakin d1860 & wife Elizbeth d1865. Charles Harding d1868. A memorial with lost inscription.

Tatenhill

CHURCH. St Michael.
MEMORIALS. Some of these memorials are in the tower. Sculpture of kneeling figure of a child above a baby in bed - Mrs Griffiths d1641 & her two daughters, children of Henry Griffiths (someone has written John Crose 1708, underneath). Thomas Masters d?1696 (Latin). Small brass with inscription only - ‘1705 Mr Henry Watford Tanner of Mancester in Warws. gave £100 to buy lands to maintaine coates and shooes for poor of Tatenhill _Ends_”The figure of a tanners beam knife of red cloath fixed on the lift sleave and to be delivered all the parish church of Tatenhill upon the fifth day of November yearly to the end of the World”’. Charles Gresley of Dunstall, 3rd son of Sir Thomas Gresley of Drakelow, Derbys. d1724 & wife Anne 3rd daughter of John Bott of Dunstall d1720 & three daughters - Elizabeth (married Samuel Beardsley of Tamworth), Frances (unmarried) d1748, & Anne (married Thomas Bott of Coventry) d1739. A charity board not hanging on wall - Priscilla Allen & others gave in 1747 & Mrs Bailey gave in 1720, & William Bird gave in 1762. John Bust d1771, & wife Mary d1773 & son John d1785 & John Bust Meek d1790 aged 7 also Sarah Bust d1797 also John d1794 & Mary Meek d1807 also Lionel d1819 aged 16 & Mary Meek d1820 aged 21 (children of Richard & Lucy Meek), also Richard Walter Meek d1823 aged 23 also Richard Meek father of above d1838 also Lucy Meek his wife d1843 at Tourville, Normandy. Thomas Dicken of Highlins Park d1771 & wife Ann d1736 aged 26 also their children Thomas d1785 & Mary d1761 aged 25 also sister of Ann Dicken - Elizabeth Kent, spinster d1788. John Evans of Callingwood d1840 & wife Elizabeth d1858. The Chancel was restored at cost of Rev. William Weldon Champneys M.A. 1872. Reredos & choir stalls were gift of Right Hon. Lord Burton, the oak pulpit was given by Mrs M.T. Bass 1890. WW1 roll of honour. Margaret Millicent Robinson, wife of Thomas Robinson d1927. Electric organ blower presented by Arthur & kathleen Lowe & Margaret Shelly in gratitude for safe return of their son Thomas David & her husband Frederick Thomas from WW2. WW2 roll of honour - five dead. Font cover - Gladys Margaret Higgott, churchwarden to 1966. Cupboard in memory of Beatrice Willis d1952, & Eric C. Willis d1971. Very faded inscription written onto or painted onto the wall of the nave, a wood frame surround - perhaps a benefaction notice?
NOTE. Photograph of the wheel Saxon cross once in the churchyard, now at Rolleston.
GLASS MEMORIALS. E window - Frances Ewart & her only daughter Frances Lavina 1882. Rev. Thomas Rover M.A. d1897 on Christmas Day at Shanklin, Isle of Wight. Thomas Robinson d1901 & wife Margaret Robinson.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. Thomas Roper M.A. Rector d1897 on Christmas Day at Shanklin, Isle of Wight. John Grantham d1911 the only gravestone facing W, an eccentric man or some relation stipulated it should be placed so? Barry Lawrence accidently killed Sept. 4 1963 aged 26.

Tettenhall Regis

CHURCH. St Michael
MEMORIALS. Those remaining in the tower - Rev. John Ravenhill M.A. d1797. Richard Fryer M.P. for Wolverhampton d1846 buried at St Peters, Wolverhampton & wife Mary d1852. Clock & chimes - Rev. Wilfrid Henry Goode vicar to 1949.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. William Pitt. Gypsy woman grave near willow tree, headstone includes portrait. Bronze statue of an angel kneeling - Ann Stevenson Lycett d1911 & John Lycett M.D. d1928.

Tettenhall Wood

CHURCH. Christ Church
MEMORIALS. Rev. Bro. A.B. Hilliard M.A. d1888. Henry Loveridge J.P. d1892. Six stone pillars replaced iron pillars for Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria 1897. Sophia wife of Henry Loveridge d1900.John Riley d1901 & wife Helen d1900. Alfred Heath d1917. WW1 roll of honour on a paper scroll. WW1 & WW2 rolls of honour. Rev. Benjamin Danks M.A. vicar to 1921. Chancel screen - Rowland Tildesley d1927. John Allcock, chorister d1938. Thomas Alcock resigned from the choir on leaving the parish 1938. Selwyn Bott, chorister d1960. Claud Bonser, chorister d1963. Percy Thomas Street, clerk d1966. Charles Taylor d1967. Gilbert Bailey, organist d1975. The floor in the two aisles - Newton Heath T.D. F.R.C.S.
GLASS MEMORIALS. E window - Rev. Arthur Brewitt Hilliard M.A. d1888. Helen Underhill d1926 on Easter day. E window N aisle - Elizabeth Harriet Holt d1930. Window given by the Sunday School Teachers 1930. James Edward Underhill d1930 aged 97. Frances Louisa Mackenizie OBE d1933. Samuel & Mildred Butler of Crompton. Tom Byron Adams, & Helen Adams & family.

CHURCH. United Reform, Mount Rd
MEMORIALS. Thomas Faulkner d1913 & son Thomas William Faulkner d1913. Rev. Edward Ewart Rhodes B.A. d1937. Malcolm Charles Marple d1988.

Thorpe Constantine

CHURCH. St Constantine.
MEMORIALS. Charity board titled - ‘Wollaston’s Charity’ - Rev. Samuel Wollaston of Thorpe Constantine made a bequest in his will dated 1666, & proved 1668, board placed in 1863. Elizabeth Inge d1784. In the Inge family vault - William Inge son of Theodore William d1785, Anne daughter of same d1790 aged 18, Henrietta wife of Theodore William Inge (daughter of Sir John Wrottesley Bart) d1790, Anne wife of William Inge (daughter of Thomas Hall) d1792, Sophia daughter of William Phillips Inge d1836, William Phillips Inge son of William Inge d1838 & his wife Elizabeth Euphemia d1855, in the churchyard are the remains of Lieut. Col. William Inge son of William Phillips Inge d1870. Gulielmus Inge A.M. d1807 & children - Gulielmus, Elizabeth, Richard, & Charles. Henrietta wife of Rev. Spencer Madan D.D. daughter of William Inge d1816. William Phillips Inge d1838 & wife Elizabeth Euphemia, daughter of John 7th Earl of Galloway d1855. William Frederick Inge of Thorpe Constantine d1903 & eldest daughter Margaret Ethel Inge d1919 aged 25. Henry Scarroff ‘David’, clerk of the church d1926. Hilda Mary Inge, daughter of William, she inherited the Thorpe & Tanybwlch estates in 1919, d1953. Mary Caroline wife of William Frederick Inge & daughter of W.E. Oakley of Tan Y Bwlch, Merionethshire d1961 at Cliff.
GLASS MEMORIALS. E window - Rev. George Inge rector 1824 -1881. Rev. George Inge 1883. William Frederick Inge d1903. Mary Anne Inge 1907.
FURNISHING. Commandment boards.
NOTE. In the tower - a table board outlining who it is forbidden to marry; left hand side for men to respect; right hand side for women to respect; 30 categories each.

Tipton

CHURCH.

St Martin

Known locally as the ‘Pepper Box’. Redundant.
MEMORIALS. Thomas Underhill d1853 & wife Sarah d1852. John Davies M.R.C.S. L.S.A. d1857 & wife Sarah Jane d1885 buried Stoneleigh, Warws & elder daughter Emily Jane d1874 buried at Torquay. Furniture & seating presented by Rowland Hill of Denbigh Hall, Tipton in memory of his wife Eliza Hill d1887 also Rowland Hill cousin of Sir Rowland Hill promoter of the Penny Post d1896. William John Wilday warden d1891. John Marson of Wednesbury Oak d1895. For the Society of Change Ringers for the Archdeaconry of Stafford on Monday Feb. 11 1901 was rung a peal of Stedman Triples 5040 changes (John Carters Ten Part) in 2 hours 55 mins. rung with the bells full muffled as a tribute to Queen Victoria. George Monnington Waring d1903 & wife Elizabeth d1902. Rev. Wilson Thomas de Vine d1921 & son Hatton Bertram St John de Vine killed in France in WW1. Elizabeth Powell d1928. James Charles Dunn of Fernleigh, Horseley Heath d1928 & wife Sarah Elizabeth d1921. Sgt. 7879700 E. Rhodes 5th R.T.C. died July 18 1948 at Auslt, Germany. Electric bells - Arthur Frederick Wiltshire d1951. Memorial suspected missing.
GLASS MEMORIALS. Anna Caroline de Vine of Tipton vicarage d1912. Martha Jane wife of William Rock Small of York House, Great Bridge d1913 interred at Wednesbury. Rev. Wilson Thomas de Vine M.A. vicar to 1921. William Rock Small for 60 years ringer & sometime ringing master d1925.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. Isolated headstone 200 yards SW of the church - Richard Moore of Princes End killed by a Railway Collision near Dudley Aug. 23 1858 aged 20. 100 yards SW of the church - Sarah Perry wife of William Perry senior, a grainer of Tipton d1870, the mother or wife of the Tipton Slasher?

CHURCH.

St Matthew

MEMORIALS. The Incorporated Society for Building & Churches granted £100 1878. Walter Sowden d1900. WW1 roll of honour. Lectern - Martha Hawthorn d1919. Iron screen by pulpit - Mary Anne James wife of Rev. D.R. James B.D. d1925. Vicars chair - Charles Lakin d1940 aged 20. Vicars chair - Daniel H. Hartland d1949. Vicars chair - Frances Kate Gurden 1956. Mosern chest - George Hickman chorister d1969.
GLASS MEMORIALS. Rev. Robert Street Keitch d1918 x 2.

CHURCH.

St Paul

MEMORIALS. Florence wife of Rev. G.E. Lythgoe d1901 & her son Vernon Wilson St Paul d1900 aged 22 months. Lieut. J. Wentworth Lythgoe 14th Royal Warws. Regt. son of the vicar killed in action France 1916 aged 26. Rev. George Edward Lythgoe d1929.
BELL RINGING NOTICES IN THE GALLERY. On 15 Oct. 1887 was rung in 2 hours 54 mins. Holts Ten Part Peal of Grandsire Triples 5040 Changes, on Feb. 6 1888 Taylors Bob & Single Peal of Grandsire Triples 5040 changes 194 Bobs, 46 Singles in 2 hours 55 mins. On 22 May 1888 a peal of Bob Triples 5040 changes was rung in 3 hours being the 1st peal in that method upon these bells. On 14 Sept. 1889 in 2 hours 52 mins. Thurstans Peal in that intricate & most beautiful method of Stedman Triples 5040 changes. On 18 Aug. 1888 in 2 hours & 51 mins. a peal of Grandsire Triples 5040 changes Taylors Bob & Single Variation. On 21 Feb. 1889 in 2 hours 52 mins. on Excellent Struck peal in Stedman Triples 5040 changes, Thurstans Composition with Single at half way & end of peal. On 2 Jan. 1892 Mr. T.Day’s three part peal of Kent Treble Bob Major 5088 changes in 3 hours 16 mins. On 16 Jan. 1892 a peal of Darlaston Bob Triples 5040 changes in 2 hours 56 mins. being a six part peal composed by Mr. John Carter also the 1st in this method rang upon the bells, being a muffled peal in token respect to H.R.H. the late Duke of Clarence. On 12 Oct. 1895 in 2 hours 55 mins. a peal 5040 changes of Double Norwich Court Bob Major, on Jan. 18 1896 in 2 hours 55 mins. a peal 5000 changes of Forward Major. On 16 Feb. 1907 in 3 hours Thurstans’s Five part peal of Stedman Triples 5040 changes, on 27 April 1907 in 2 hours 52 mins. John Carter’s Ten Part peal of Stedman Triples 5,040 changes. On 9 Nov. 1918 in 2 hours 50 mins a peal of Stedman Triples 5040 changes Sir G.P. Heywoods Transposition of Thurstans Four part rung with the bells half muffled in token respect of Pte. John Geoffrey Rowley 2nd Batt. Line Regt. killed at Wallingcourt Oct. 8 1918 aged 19. On 12 Nov. 1920 in 2 hours 45 mins. Thurstans Four part peal of Stedman Triples 5040 changes, on Nov. 13 1926 in 2 hours 55 mins. the same as above in memory of Mr. William Rock Small d1925 it had been rung six years earlier to mark his 81st birthday.
FURNISHING. Commandments, Lords Prayer, Creed.

Tittensor

CHURCH. St Luke. (RHPS il. Nº 25 shows the old chapel -of-ease c.1850).
FOUNDATION STONE. Laid by The Duchess of Sutherland, Countess of Cromarty on 18 June 1880 - H.R.H. Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales was present (RHPS p305).
MEMORIALS. James Robatham 1856. Pulpit - Rev. William Beech Hasefield 1886. Lectern - James Heakin of Darlaston Hall 1886. Cross - Empson Alcock d1916. Rev. Charles William Richard Higham vicar to 1940. Church tower restoration - Mr & Mrs Leonard Jones 1981. Miss Martha Gibbs.
GLASS MEMORIAL. E window - James Meakin of Darlaston Hall d1885.
FURNISHING. Commandments board.

Tixall

CHURCH. St John.
MEMORIALS. Simon Wakelin of Uttoxeter d1697. Hon. John Chetwynd Talbot d1852 & wife Caroline Jane Stuart Talbot d1876. Hon. J.C. Talbot’s body was removed to Markbeech Church, Kent in 1876 to rest by his wife. William Power of Brancote d1876 & wife Jane d1898 & son Thomas d1884 at Sweetwater, Texas USA. The rood - Those who fell in WW1. The figures of Our Lady & St John added to the rood - Frederick John Nesbitt & wife Marion Eleanor & son Humphry John Stuart Nesbitt 1952.
GLASS MEMORIALS. Anne Deaville wife of G.R. Woodward d1851, his 1st wife Anne Jane d1845. Glass restoration 1992 - Jean Hardy Smith (mother of Dr Anne Andrews), Phyllis Hill SRN, SCM, churchwarden.
NOTE. Stone cross removed from S side of King’s Low 1990.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. Richard Biddulph d1627 (b1546), the inscription on the headstone having become almost illegible was renewed by Arthur Clifford great grandson of Walter 4th Lord Aston, great grandson of Walter 1st Lord Aston by whom this monument was erected. Ralph Hadderstich d1777 aged 101. Francis Ward servant of Thomas Clifford d1812. Rev. Henry Le Sage Roman Catholic priest a native of St Malo, Brittanny & grand nephew to the author of Gil Blas d1824 aged 49 (SCHJ Nº20 1981 p8). Edward Harvey drowned while bathing in the Trent 1852. William Morris gardener & bailiff at Tixall Hall. Members of the Weetman family after whom Weetman’s Bridge is named. Ann Statham of Bottle Lodge d1927 aged 80 & son Thomas d1913.

Trentham

CHURCH. St Mary & All Saints. Legend has it that the church was carried down to Trentham by white oxen, or swans, or mice. It could be an ancient remembance of a procession of clergy from Hanchurch to Trentham (TTH pp21, 23). There is a water colour of the interior by John Sell Cotman c 1810 reproduced poorly in TTH p38.
MEMORIALS. Fragment of an effigy of a Knight c.1215. Brass to Sir Richard Leveson-Gower d1559 & Lady Leveson-Gower d1591. William Leveson Gower d1686. Sir William Leveson Gower Bart. son of Sir Thomas. Charity box inscribed ‘Remember The Poore’ ‘PH 16 M 98’. Charity board - Mr Brerehurst of Hanford 1745 left 20 shillings a year in bread to be given to the poor on Ash Wednesday also Mrs Astbury of Cheshire, Mr Tuer Serv, John Mare Bailiff, Mr John White, Mr James Preston were benefactors (TTH p44p). Charity board - Mary wife of Sir Richard Leveson Lilleshall (TTH p44p). Thomas Swinnerton of Butterton Hall d1836. Thomas Elliot 1837 & Liddle Elliot 1852. Bust to Duke of Sutherland 1838. Frederick G.S. Leveson Gower died on the waters of Sebastopol 1854. Recumbent effigy of Henrietta, Duchess of Sutherland d1868. Bust to Albert Sutherland Leveson Gower d1874. Bust relief to Florence Chaplin d1881. Bust to the eldest son of the 3rd Duke d1888. Jesus, & Simon the Leper in the House of Martha, & Mary relief figures - Cromarthie 4th Duke & 20th Earl of Sunderland 1915. Francis Arthur Edwardes d1944. Altar cross - Joyce Hewitt d1958, it was stolen in Oct. 1972 and turned up on Cannock Chase nr Brockton in April 1973 (TTH p157).
FLOOR TILES. Herbert Minton. John Lonsdale Bishop of Lichfield d1867. George Augustus Selwyn Bishop of New Zealand. Edward James Justin George Edwards d1884. Edmund Vincent Pigott d1908. Malcolm Graham d1931 Archdeacon of Stoke. A.E. Grimes vicar to 1947. J.F. Challis vicar to 1958. Frank Ramsden vicar to 1977.
TILE MEMORIALS. Richard Peake d1815 & wife Elizabeth d1839. James Shelden d1822 & Janet d1851. Thomas Bould d1831. Sarah Hisson d1836. Thomas Eliot d1837. Nathaniel Crisp d1837, Henry Crisp d1842. Randel William Kirkby d1839. James Beech d1840 & Elizabeth d1851. Sarah Woolley school mistress d1846. John Penson d1847 & Elizabeth 1845. John Swift d1851, Frederick Swift d1854. Enoch Bloore d1853 & Sarah d1871. Thomas Hughes of Northywood d1853 & wife Jane d1839. Charles Kirkby d1854. Thomas Hollins d1854. Mary Harris d1854 & Henry Seymour Harris d1849. James Powner d1856. Simpson Stevenson d1856. Elisa Hodson d1856 & granddaughter Maria d1859. Richard Stannaway of Hanchurch Brook d1857, & James Stannaway d1853. John Wright d1858. Samuel Leakin d1858 & Sarah d1840. Samuel Hemmings d1859. John Brough of Hem Heath d1859 & wife Anne d1858. Jemima Hulme d1859. William Rhead d1860. Thomas Powsner d1862 & wife Mary d1843. Joseph Chatterley d1864. Thomas Ford Hulme d1865. Sarah Ford Hulme d1866. Mary Bennison d1866. Elizabeth Kirkby wife of Charles d1867. Thomas Anson d1869. Reuben Penson d1873. Richard Topping d1873, & Ruth d1873. William Henry d1875. Robert Wright d1875 & Sarah d1876. John Hassells of Dresden, Staffs. d1876. Anne Timmis d1877. Mary Anne Penson wife of Reuben d1880. Mary Healey d1882. Caroline Swift d1887 at Southport. Thomas Ford Hulme d1891 & Mary d1904.
FURNISHING. Coat of Arms of Charles I, painted by Samuel Kirk of Lichfield over the N door, originally over the Rood screen, used as target practice by Parliamentary troops in Civil War (TTH p41p). Commandment boards.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. John Moulton Layes, a servant, 1666, the oldest gravestone in the churchyard (TTH p93). John Bell Gent, servant to the Gower family 1718 aged 101 (TTH p93). The stone commemorating the Bould family dated 1588 was described as modern in 1857, perhaps erected at rebuilding of the church 1844 to commemorate the first family marked in the PR in 1558 (TTH p93). Miss Mary Jones Sunday School teacher, knocked down by a car and killed 1931 (TTH p110 - needs checking). Archdeacon Malcolm Graham vicar from 1908, knocked down by a car and killed 1931 (TTH p110 - needs checking). Richard Beasley, coachman at the Hall.

Trysull

CHURCH. All Saints.
MEMORIALS. Wood carved plaque with inscription - ‘John Perkes’ pue set up at his own cost, belonging to the new house where he now liveth, by appointment to Mr William Yeat, Robert Hubbal, churchwardens Ano Domi 1660’ - it was found under the floor boards at Seisdon Hall in 1980 & given to the church by the then owner D.F. Cave, churchwarden 1949-77. Thomas Pudsey of Seisdon d1715. Sleep arouser board - ‘Mr John Rudge of Seisdon, built a Hospital, & benefactions to the poor, also 20 shillings a year to a grave person to keep people awake Sermon time, and to keep the church clean 1722.’ Benefactors board - William & Hugh Wollaston, Nicholas Barnesley, Anne & Thomas Dolman, William Barnesley, Mrs Margaret Pudley, Mrs Elizabeth Barnesley, Mr Thomas Hickmans 1722. Benefaction board - Thomas Rudge of Westminster. Benefactions board - Henry Wheeler, John Straford, Mary Andrews. Mr John Ketley, schoolmaster of ‘The Nimmins’ list of his benefactions to the poor d1728. Samuel Peach of Seisdon d1801. Joseph Tongue of Hallon, Worfield d1821, & wife Elizabeth d1803. Sarah Aston of Seisdon wife of George Aston of Newton, Salop. d1838 also George Peach Aston her eldest son d1853 & his wife Mary Ann Aston d1886. Henry Jesson grandson of Cornelius Jesson M.A. d1841 & wife Sarah d1848 & their son Henry Jesson d1853. John Perry d1862, & wife Mary d1877. Rev. John J. Rome d1871 aged 29. Robert Archibald Dickins Hon. Lieut. Col. Queen’s Own Royal Staffs. Yeomanry d1893 at Woodford Grange. Bells rehung, S porch built, & tower restoration - John & Sarah Eliza Baker 1897. George Pudsey Aston-Pudsey d1901 & wife Ann d1925. Robert Gordon Andrews d1910 aged 18 & his brother Francis Nicholas Andrews 2nd Lieut. Royal Irish Rifles d1915 aged 20, buried at Villers Bocage, France. WW1 roll of honour. J.O.W. Salmon choirmaster 1883-1924, G.C. Salmon organist 1905-43, & J.T. Salmon choirmaster 1924-48. William Aston d1925. Electric lighting - Mary Alice Andrews 1934. Flag pole in the tower - given by members of Trysull & Seisdon Mothers Union to commemorate their 75th anniversary 1980.William Nell d1984.
GLASS MEMORIALS. Thomas Peach Pudsey d1846. Three S windows - The husband of Mary Perry 1865. John Willim of the Manor House d1865.
FURNISHING. Church chest, long & very stongly bound, & warped.
FIXTURE. Weathered stone carved head (a bishop?) above door to vestry.

Tunstall

CHURCH. Christ Church
MEMORIALS. Ellen Davenport d1843, also children - Sarah d1834, Francis Bradeley d1849, Margarette d1849, Ellen d1857, Charles Thomas Devenport d1864, Charles Devenport d1871. Joseph Heath d1861 & wife Mary d1858. Edward Challinor, manufacturer d1879. Reredos on the high altar - Annie Street d1901. WW1 roll of honour. Three altar servers died in WW1 - John Darlington, Theodore Maddock, Frank Pitt. Mosaic table - Henry Lawton, manufacturer d1925. Hugh Worthington Adams of Stone d1928 & daughter Sarah d1907 & her sister Jane Adams d1889. Reredos - Joseph Henry Collis d1926. Altar - Joseph Cecil Collis d1931. The rood - John Henry Whalley & Eliza Whalley 1958.
GLASS MEMORIALS. George & Elizabeth Collis 1909. Frederick Beacall churchwarden d1945. William Parry 1948.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. George Kirkham.

Tutbury

CHURCH. St Mary.
MEMORIALS. Fragment of an incised slab with figure. Antony Horidge (or Aoridge?) d1635. Slate slab by S door - Mr John Chamberlain charity d1702. Rev. Jonathan Stubbs d1810. John Bott d1815 & wife Sarah d1804. Anne, wife of Jonathan Stubbs d1816. George Watson Hutchinson M.A. d1818. John Spencer of Rolleston Park d1823. Rev. George Robinson d1837. Anne Croft d1845. Rev. Henry John Peach d1886. Trooper E. Bentley d1901. W. Trafford Newton killed 1916. WW1 & WW2 roll of honour. Rev. John Thomas Draper vicar to 1932. Bells rehung at expense of H. Newton, treble bell given by W.W. Worthington 1934. Floor lowering & relaying - Henry Newton 1937. Commemorative plaque for foundation of church in 1089, placed by the Duchess of York 1989. Richard Wakefield. Bells - Thomas, Susan, & Dorothy Ellen Shipton.
GLASS MEMORIALS. W window - Rev. Henry Peach 1890.
FURNISHINGS. Font. Church chest. Painting of the Nativity by unknown artist, a copy. Lectern carved from found bog oak. 39 Glastonbury chairs.
FIXTURES. Tympanum.
NOTE. Treasure Trove notice 1831.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. Witches Grave.

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