St Mary and All Saints Church - Whitmore, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.
N 52° 57.936 W 002° 17.025
30U E 548105 N 5868683
St Mary and All Saints is a parish church in the Diocese of Lichfield, located on Whitmore Road (A53) in Whitmore, Staffordshire.
Waymark Code: WMV4CC
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/21/2017
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St Mary and All Saints is located the corner of the A53 and Three Mile Lane, opposite the Mainwaring Arms.
The church is a Grade II listed building with a history dating from the Norman Conquest. The church was restored at the turn of the Twentieth century and has recently had many repairs which include a new curtain wall, tower and Nave arcade. (
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The Church of St Mary and All Saints may have stood from Saxon times, but the earliest structure visible is from the Norman period. It became a Rectory in its own right in 1807 and remains the benefice of Whitmore. The interior was restored in 1880. Several memorials exist of the Mainwaring family.
The coat of arms of the families who held Whitmore since the Norman Conquest; de Whitmore, de Verdon, de Boughey, Mainwaring and Cavenagh can be seen on the west window. (
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Church History
"The Church, St Mary & All Saints, is a small ancient edifice, with a half-timbered turret, and was a chapel of ease to Stoke-upon-Trent until 1807. The benefice is a rectory in the patronage of Captain Rowland Mainwaring, and the Rev CH Mainwaring, BA, is the incumbent."
[From History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire, William White, Sheffield, 1851)