Description:St. Joseph's and St. Ethelreda's Roman Catholic Church on Lichfield Street, Rugeley was built in 1849-50 and designed by Charles Hansom. The spire was not added to the church tower until 1868.
The chief founders were Joseph Whitgreave, who 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 were restored in the early 1980s.