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Oulton Abbey, near Stone

A postcard showing Benedictine Abbeys in Britain, including Oulton Abbey (bottom right) and Caverswall Castle (top right) in Staffordshire. The original building at Oulton Abbey, formerly Oulton House, ...

Our Lady & St Benedict Roman Catholic Church and Presbytery, Abbey Hulton, Stoke-on-Trent

The Church of Our Lady and St. Benedict in Abbey Lane, Abbey Hulton was built in 1937–8. Originally part of Birches Head parish, Abbey Hulton became a separate parish in 1941. The open land in the foreground ...

Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church, Hednesford

The land on which the church is built was purchased in 1919-20. The first building was a wooden chapel built using resources from the disused German internment camp on Cannock Chase and labour supplied ...

Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church, Hednesford

A postcard view of the interior of the church which was opened in 1934. This view shows one of the two transepts, each having lancet windows with a rose window above. The seating at this time was individual ...

Our Lady of the Angels and St Peter in Chains Church, Hartshill

This photograph was taken from Higson Avenue, looking across Hartshill Road. The brick built Gothic style church is attached to the neighbouring Dominican Convent and was built between the 1850s and 1890s. ...

Our Lady of the Assumption Chapel, Swynnerton,

This Roman Catholic chapel was built next to Swynnerton Hall in 1869. The architect was Gilbert Blount.

Our Lady of the Assumption R.C. Church, Swynnerton,

This Roman Catholic chapel was built next to Swynnerton Hall in 1869. The architect was Gilbert Blount.

Outline of St. Bertelin's Chapel, Stafford,

St. Bertelin's Chapel was dedicated to an eighth century Anglo-Saxon saint, who had chosen Stafford for his hermitage. The wooden chapel was replaced by a stone one on the same site in the eleventh century. St. ...

Panorama from Bedford Street, Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent

This photograph was taken from just north of the flight of locks at Bedford Street in Shelton. The camera is looking northwards along the Caldon Canal with the winding towers of Wolstanton Colliery on ...

Parish chest and font, All Saints' Church, Dilhorne

The ancient chest, probably medieval, has two padlocks, with evidence that there was at one time a third. This system ensured that all of the keyholders needed to be present to access the contents. The ...

Parish Chest, All Saints' Church, Milwich,

Parish Church , Eccleshall

The Lichgate, Holy Trinity Church.

Parish Church of the Holy Trinity, Hamil Road, Burslem

Originally St.Werburghs this single storey building is thought to have been erected sometime before July 20th 1895, as the inscribed datestone remains as part of the wall. The bell tower, situated to ...

Parish Church, Norton Canes

The church of St. James the Great, Norton Canes, was built as a replacement for a previous church lost to fire in 1888. It took two hours for a fire engine to arrive from Walsall only for the hose to ...

Parish Records of St. Nicholas Church, Codsall

Parish registers record baptisms, marriages and burials. The register above, begins in the reign of the last Tudor queen, Elizabeth I, in 1587 when the new chaplain, Thomas Pytt, arrived in Codsall. They ...

Parish Room and Cottage Homes, Armitage

The four almshouses and the Parish Room were built by the Rev. E. Samson in 1904. He had previously built four almshouses in Brereton. The homes were for the use of needy village people. The almshouses ...

Parker-Jervis Mausoleum, Aston-by-Stone

This mausoleum stands at the northern side of St. Saviour's churchyard in Aston-by-Stone and was built in 1864 to designs by John Wood for Edward Swinfen Parker Jervis of Little Aston Hall and his son ...

Parsonage House at Salt: sepia drawing (vignetted)

'The Parsonage House at Salt, Staffordshire.' Showing an early Victorian, two storey building in the Elizabethan style, surrounded by a garden.'J. B.,' [John Buckler].