THE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST

We hope you will enjoy visiting the churches shown in this leaflet. None of these churches receive state aid towards their preservation and maintenance of fabric, and unfortunately repairs are constantly necessary. The SHCT is a charity [no. 240854], which gives grants of up to £3000 to churches of all denominations in Staffordshire. We ask you to consider joining the trust for a minimum subscription of £10 p.a. so that we can continue to offer financial support to these churches. www.staffordshirehct.org.uk Church Trail 01 02 03

Christianity has been established in the Stafford ST MARY, STAFFORD [01] area since the late 7th Century. However the Collegiate Church with Perpendicular octagonal earliest work to be seen in local churches dates crossing tower. Nave with five bay arcades c.1190 from c.1200. The churches listed here are a - 1200. Chancel c.1300. Fine north transept with selection representing the main periods of church ‘Decorated’ window and doorway. Unusual Norman architecture, together with their various fittings font. Foundations of Saxon church of St Bertelin such as box pews, galleries, screens, pulpits and, west of church. Look out for tomb chest of Sir Edward of course the numerous memorials to the people Aston[d.1568] of . whom these churches served in the past. ST CHAD, STAFFORD [02] For opening arrangements Despite heavy restoration by Ward and Scott in the please contact the Tourist 19th Century, a good example of a small Norman Information Centre, parish church. Norman nave with circular piers, Stafford Gatehouse east and west crossing arches with beakhead Theatre, Eastgate Street, ornament and zig-zag chancel with black arcading. Stafford, ST16 2LT. Perpendicular crossing tower. T. 01785 619 619 SOCIETY OF FRIENDS [QUAKERS], Many thanks to FOREGATE STREET, STAFFORD [03] Mr D Baddeley and Built 1730. Small single room brick building with Mrs F Sheridan. original panelling, gallery, staircase and overseers bench. Hiding place in roof from days of persecution.

01 Collegiate Church St Mary. The parish church of Stafford. First major restoration by Scott 1841-44. 11

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ST MARY, CASTLE CHURCH [04] ST MARY, [09] Perpendicular west tower. Church rebuilt by Scott Built beside Ingestre Hall, 1676, for Chetwynd family. and Moffat 1844-45 in Norman style with lancets Attributed to Wren. West tower with balustrade. in lower chancel. Large mysterious slab with close Nave with flat ‘Decorated’ stuccoed ceiling and abstract decoration c.1180-1200, probably part of chancel with plaster tunnel vault. Round clerestory an altar. Church probably associated with village windows. Magnificent carved oak screen and pulpit of Monteville, ‘the old hollow way’ to castle passes with tester. Memorials and tombs of Chetwynd and through churchyard. Talbot families. Early electric light fittings 1876.

ST AUSTIN’S [RC], ST JOHN, STOWE-BY-CHARTLEY [10] WOLVERHAMPTON ROAD, STAFFORD [05] Basically Norman church as nave, chancel and Originally built 1791, extended 1815-17. Present church doorways with zig-zag and scalloped capitals show. dates from 1861-62, by E W Pugin. Brick with stone Several windows and west tower ‘Decorated’. Effigies dressings. 16th Century Flemish figures in west of Sir Walter Devereux [d.1537] and wives, of Chartley, window. Other windows by Hardman. with Renaissance decoration. Two tablets by Lutyens [1916 and 1927]. HOLY TRINITY, BASWICH [06] Medieval west tower with 18th Century top. Norman ST ANDREW, WESTON [11] chancel arch. Nave and chancel rebuilt in red brick One of the finest Early English west towers in the 1740 by Richard Trubshaw. Georgian west gallery. One county. Early 13th Century with lancet windows and elevated family pew. Three decker pulpit. Tomb chest broad clasping buttresses. Wide triple chamfered [1587] with shields and four tapering square balusters. arch. Arcades and chancel arch later 13th Century. Rest of church mainly by Scott 1860 and Butterfield ST MICHAEL, COLWICH [07] 1872. Two bells c.1400. West tower 1640 in Gothic tradition. Rest of building mainly Victorian by Stevens of Derby 1856. Early English style arcades. Ornate chancel with canopied stalls. Monuments to Wolseley and Anson families. Admiral Anson of Shugborough [d.1762] buried in family crypt.

ST JOHN BAPTIST [RC], GREAT HAYWOOD [08] Built 1828 at Tixall and moved here 1845 by 10 ST JOHN, local Catholics. Ornate west front with high STOWE-BY-CHARTLEY octagonal south west turret. Straight headed, late Norman Church with several Perpendicular windows, with stone panelled dado windows and west tower in underneath inside. Rich west gallery. ‘Decorated’ style. 11

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ALL SAINTS, SANDON [12] ST DOMINIC [RC], STONE [15] Mainly 13th to 15th Century. Windows with Y tracery Large, towerless, spacious church with nave, aisles and inter-sected tracery, also three stepped lancet and transepts in late 13th Century style. Built 1852-63. lights. Good arch-braced roof. Ornate north aisle Nave by Charles Hansom. Monument to Archbishop remodelled 1851 as chapel for Earls of Harrowby. 17th Ullathorne 1889. Attached to convent of similar date. Century reredos and pulpit with tester. 17th Century heraldic glass in east window. Elevated family pew ST MARY, SWYNNERTON [16] 1782. Look out for the Large monument to Sampson Norman west doorway in tower. Chancel and nave Erdesweick, the antiquary [d.1603]. Painted family tree arcades Early English. Y tracery and reticulated 16th Century. tracery windows 13th Century - 14th Century. Effigy of cross-legged Knight [Sir John de Swynnerton CHRIST CHURCH, [13] d.1254]. Remarkable 7ft high statue of seated Christ Built 1827-29 by Thomas Trubshaw. Commissioners’ c.1260-1280. Good 19th Century stained glass. type church with north west low tower with 40f t spire. Inside, octagonal piers with leaf capitals. ALL SAINTS, STANDON [17] Lancet windows. Box pews. West wall of nave and north aisle Norman, probably from earlier church. Early English north and south ST MICHAEL, STONE [14] arcades. Tower 14th Century. Restored by Scott Early example of Gothic Revival style, built 1758 in 1846-47 who built chancel in best lancet style. grounds of earlier Augustinian Priory. Square west Remains of 15th Century brass cross and two 16th tower. Two tiers of windows with Y tracery along Century memorials. nave. Two galleries. Original box pews. Two 17th Century tombs of Crompton family in churchyard. ST PETER, BROUGHTON [18] Classical style Mausoleum of Earl St Vincent, Built in Gothic style 1630-34 as private chapel for Nelson’s admiral, to east of church. Broughton family, on site of earlier chapel. Short nave with two bay arcades. Windows straight- headed with round arched lights. High box pews. Several 17th and 18th century memorial tablets. Good 15th century stained glass in east window.

ST CHAD, SLINDON [19] Very fine late Victorian church designed by Basil Champneys for JC Salt of the banking family. Late Gothic, freely treated and very successful. Cruciform 12 ALL SAINTS, plan with low central tower. Restrained interior. SANDON Windows by Kempe. Ornately carved box pew. 11

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HOLY TRINITY, [20] ST LAWRENCE, [25] Described by Pevsner as ‘one of the most perfect Fine collegiate church dominated by crossing tower. 13th Century churches in Staffs’. Strong west tower, Contains some of best Norman work in Staffordshire windows with Y tracery, long chancel. in the ornate west crossing arch, and the blank arcading and triforium of the south transept. Rest ALL SAINTS, [21] of church 13th - 15th Century. Lovely ‘Decorated’ five Mainly Norman with Early English south arcade. light east window with flowing tracery. Fine west tower, Perpendicular with eight pinnacles and outside stair turret. Beautiful medieval roof. ST EDITHA, [26] Some windows by Kempe 1901. 13th Century carved 12th Century Norman west tower with deeply stone coffin. Anglo-Saxon cross-shaft in churchyard. splayed windows, topped by 15th Century recessed spire. Nave and aisles Early English and ‘Decorated’. ST CHAD, [22] Fine Perpendicular seven light chancel east and 19th Norman chancel arch and north arcade. 13th Century Century memorials to Crocket family. chancel. West tower built in local brick in 17th Century after collapse of Norman crossing tower. ST MARY AND ALL SAINTS, BRADLEY [27] Church Warden chest 1610. Squires pew 1748. Fine Originally Norman but rebuilt in 13th and 14th Jacobean pulpit. Alabaster tomb of William Bowyer Century. Early English lancet window and ‘Decorated’ [d.1593] 15th Century glass in south chancel window. east chancel window with flowing tracery. Three bay arcade probably brought from Austin Friary in ST MARY, [23] Stafford 1540s. Norman font with Greek key decoration. Part of nave and north doorway Norman c.1200. Kneeling figures of Thomas Browne [d.1633] and wife. Chancel and five bay south arcade early 13th Century. Early English tower and east window with ST LAWRENCE, COPPENHALL [28] triple stepped lancet lights. ‘Decorated’ chancel Nave and chancel with Victorian bell turret. West window with reticulated tracery. Fine chancel doorway with continuous roll- mounting. Lancets roof with moulded beams. 18th Century tablets to along nave. Simple pointed chancel arch. Very Skrymsher family. thick stone ashler walls.

ST PETER, NORBURY [24] Striking Georgian brick tower [1759]. Early 14th Century nave and chancel with ‘Decorated’ two light windows with inter-sected tracery. 28 ST LAWRENCE, Trussed-rafter wagon roof. Effigy of Ralph Botiller COPPENHALL. d.1342 [donor of church]. Fine 14th Century brass of Lady Hawys Botiller. ‘A perfect 13th Century village church, small but of great dignity.’ SWYNNERTON STANDON A520 16 17 13 HILDERSTONE 15 SLINDON 14 18 STONE 5027 BROUGHTON 19 5026 5066

5026 5026 SANDON CHEBSEY A34 12 20 21 ECCLESHALL 5013 HIGH OFFLEY 11 10 5066 WESTON 23 5405 STOWE-BY- M6J1 J144 A518 CHARTLEY A513 22 INGESTRE A51 5013 SEIGHFORD 03 NORBURY STAFFORD 09 24 01 GREAT CASTLE 02 04 08 HAYWOOD CHURCH 06 GNOSALL 05 BASWICH 25 07 A513 COLWICH A518 COPPENHALL A449 28 M6 J13 26 27 CHURCH EATON BRADLEY

A449 Follow the Stafford Churches Trail 04 10 28 the trail [01 ]

[ 01 ] ST MARY [ 0 8 ]  ST JOHN BAPTIST [RC] [ 15 ] ST DOMINIC [RC] [ 22 ] ST CHAD [ 02 ] ST CHAD [ 0 9 ] ST MARY [ 16 ] ST MARY [ 23 ] ST MARY [ 03 ] SOCIETY OF FRIENDS [ 10 ] ST JOHN [ 17 ] ALL SAINTS [ 24 ] ST PETER [ 0 4 ] ST MARY [ 11 ] ST ANDREW [ 18 ] ST PETER [ 25 ] ST LAWRENCE [ 05 ] ST AUSTIN’S [RC] [ 12 ] ALL SAINTS [ 19 ] ST CHAD [ 26 ] ST EDITHA [ 0 6 ] HOLY TRINITY [ 13 ] CHRIST CHURCH [ 20 ] HOLY TRINITY [ 27 ] ST MARY AND ALL SAINTS [ 07 ] ST MICHAEL [ 14 ] ST MICHAEL [ 21 ] ALL SAINTS [ 28 ] ST LAWRENCE