Description:St. Joseph's and St. Ethelreda's Roman Catholic Church on Lichfield Street, Rugeley. It was built in 1849-50 and designed by Charles Hansom. One of the turrets surrounding the spire is now missing. The spire was not added to the church tower until 1868.
The chief founders were Joseph Whitgreave, who had just built Heron Court as his residence across the road, and his sister, who later became a Benedictine nun and took the name Etheldreda. The Marquis of Anglesey, who was not a Catholic, gave the stone for the church from quarries on the Beaudesert estate. The church tower and spire was restored in the early 1980s.
Postcard published by H.J. Pascoe, Brook Square, Rugeley. Postmarked 11 Februaty 1905.