St Mary's Church, Stafford

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St Mary’s Church, Stafford
Collegiale Sainte Marie de Stafford 03.JPG
St Mary’s Collegiate Church, Stafford
St Mary's Church, Stafford
52°48′21.36″N2°07′06.97″W / 52.8059333°N 2.1186028°W / 52.8059333; -2.1186028
Location Stafford, Staffordshire,
Country England
Denomination Church of England
Churchmanship Anglo-Catholic
Website stmarysstafford.org.uk
Architecture
Heritage designation Grade I listed
Administration
Diocese Diocese of Lichfield
Archdeaconry Stoke-on-Trent
Deanery Stafford
Parish Stafford St Mary
Clergy
Rector Revd Preb Richard Grigson
Curate(s) Revd Danny Payne
AssistantRevd John Davies
Laity
Organist/Director of music Margaret Outen
Organist(s) Tim Sagar

St Mary's Church, Stafford is a Grade I listed parish church in Stafford, Staffordshire, England. [1]

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History

The church dates from the early 13th century, with 14th century transepts and 15th century clerestories and crossing tower.

Excavations in 1954 revealed the adjacent late Anglo-Saxon church of St Bertelin. [2]

The church was collegiate when recorded in the Domesday Book when there were 13 Prebendary Canons. [3] It became a Royal Peculiar around the thirteenth century, exempt from the jurisdiction of the Bishop, but this caused conflict and culminated in December 1258 when the new bishop Roger de Meyland came to Stafford with many armed men who forced entry and assaulted the canons, chaplains, and clerks. [4]

The church survived as a collegiate institution until the dissolution of colleges and chantries in 1548.

Deans of Stafford

  • William de C
  • Robert
  • Ralph of the Hospital ca. 1184 - 1207
  • Henry de Loundres 1207 - 1213
  • Bartholomew ca. 1227
  • Walter of Lench 1231 - 1246
  • Simon of Offham 1247 - 1259
  • Bevis de Clare 1259 - 1294
  • John of Caen (de Cadamo) 1294 - 1310
  • Lewis de Beaumont 1310 - 1317
  • Thomas Charlton 1317 - 1318
  • Robert of Sandall 1318 - 1325
  • Robert Holden 1325 - 1326
  • Robert Swynnerton 1326 - 1349
  • Nicholas Swynnerton 1349 - ca. 1356
  • James Beaufort 1356 - 1358
  • John of Bishopston 1358 - ca. 1366
  • Robert de More 1366 - 1376
  • Adam de Hertyngdon 1376 - 1380
  • William de Pakyngton 1380 - 1390
  • Lawrence Allerthorpe 1390 - 1397
  • John Syggeston 1397 - 1402
  • Robert Tunstall 1402 - 1406
  • John Mackworth 1406 - 1451
  • William Wore ca. 1452 - 1463
  • Thomas Hawkins 1463 - ca. 1471
  • Name unknown until 1501
  • John Thower until 1524
  • Thomas Parker 1524 - 1538
  • Edward Leighton 1538 - 1548

Post reformation history

For several generations the Aston family, who held the Scots title Lord Aston of Forfar, acted as patrons, despite the fact that the entire family converted to the Roman Catholic faith in the 1620s. When the 2nd Lord Aston, who was very popular locally, died in 1678, hundreds of Protestants attended the burial at St Mary's of a man they all knew well to be a Catholic.

The church was heavily restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott between 1841 and 1844. [5] [6] [7]

Monuments

Memorial to Izaak Walton Izaak Walton monument, St.Mary, Stafford.JPG
Memorial to Izaak Walton

The church contains

Other burials

Organ

The church has large four manual organ by Harrison and Harrison dating from 1909. It has been awarded a Grade I Historic Organ Certificate by the British Institute of Organ Studies. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register. [8]

The second organ dates from 1790 when John Geib installed it at a cost of £820. It was rebuilt in 1844 by John Banfield, and then Hill, Norman & Beard in 1974. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register. [9]

Organists

See also

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References

  1. ↑ "Church of St Mary". National Heritage List for England . Historic England . Retrieved 16 February 2024.
  2. ↑ The Buildings of England. Staffordshire. Nikolaus Pevsner. Penguin Group. ISBN   0140710469 p.240
  3. ↑ "'Colleges: Tamworth, St Edith', A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 3. pp. 309-315". 1970. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
  4. ↑ A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 3 M W Greenslade, R B Pugh (Editors). 1970
  5. ↑ Masfen, John (1852). Views of the Church of St. Mary at Stafford. London: John Henry Parker.
  6. ↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). The Buildings of England: Staffordshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin. pp. 240–243. ISBN   0140710469.
  7. ↑ Miele, Chris (1998). "Real antiquity and the ancient object: The science of Gothic architecture and the restoration of medieval buildings". In Brand, Vanessa (ed.). The study of the past in the Victorian age. Oxford: Oxbow Books. pp. 103–124. ISBN   1900188287.
  8. ↑ "NPOR [N04931]". National Pipe Organ Register . British Institute of Organ Studies . Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  9. ↑ "NPOR [N12599]". National Pipe Organ Register. British Institute of Organ Studies. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
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