Friday, 10 February 2023

Churches (171) : St. Michael and St Wulfad, Stone

The parish church dedicated to St Michael and St Wulfad in Stone, Staffordshire dates from 1758, It was built on the site of a priory church dedicated to St Mary and St Wulfad (St Wulfad was an English saint who died, according to legend, in Stone in about 675CE). 

The church was in the Early Gothic Revival design. The chancel was added in 1887. The church is made from ashlar. Inside the churchyard is a mausoleum dedicated to the Jervis family. Also in the churchyard are effigies of William II Crompton, whose father purchased the former priory lands after the Dissolution and his wife Mary Aston. The effigies were originally inside the priory church.