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Church of St Michael and All Angels

A Grade I Listed Building in Penkridge, Staffordshire

  • The Church of St Michael and All Angels

  • Church of St Michael and all Angels

  • Church of St Michael and All Angels

  • St Michael & All Angels: formerly a collegiate church, red sandstone; mostly c16 Perpendicular outside including top of Decorated tower

  • St Michael & All Angels: c14 west tower (upper stage later); clerestoried nave, chancel, aisles & south porch with crenelated parapets & crocketed pinnacles

  • St Michael & All Angels: spacious interior with c13 arcades; Dutch wrought iron screen from 1778

  • St Michael & All Angels: chancel containing the tombs; large Decorated east window; c.1340

  • St Michael & All Angels: alabaster tomb of Edward Littleton of Pillaton, d.1558, & two wives; twisted colonettes & shields

  • St Michael & All Angels: tomb from above of Edward Littleton of Pillaton, d.1558, & two wives Helen & Isabella

  • St Michael & All Angels: Edward Littleton of Pillaton, d.1558, & two wives Helen & Isabella

  • St Michael & All Angels: Edward Littleton of Pillaton, d.1558

  • St Michael & All Angels: Helen Swynnerton, first wife of Edward Littleton of Pillaton, d.1558

  • St Michael & All Angels: Isabella Wood, second wife of Edward Littleton of Pillaton, d.1558

  • St Michael & All Angels: tomb of Edward Littleton of Pillaton, d.1574, & wife Alice (Cockayne of Ashbourne)

  • St Michael & All Angels: tomb of Edward Littleton, d.1574, & wife Alice from the south side

  • St Michael & All Angels: Edward Littleton of Pillaton, d.1574

  • St Michael & All Angels: two tiered monument to Edward Littleton, d.1610, & wife Margaret (below) & their son Edward Littleton, d.1629, & his wife Mary (above)

  • St Michael & All Angels: Edward Littleton of Pillaton, d.1610

  • St Michael & All Angels: Edward Littleton of Pillaton, d.1610

  • St Michael & All Angels: Margaret (Devereux of Merevale) wife of Edward Littleton of Pillaton, d.1610

  • St Michael & All Angels: named daughters of Edward Devereux, d.1610; Mary, Anne, Dorothy, Jane, Margaret, Honor, Lettice & the last incomplete

  • St Michael & All Angels: Edward Littleton, d.1629; named children below; William, Walter, Fisher, Edward, Lettice, Mary, Margaret & Anne

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Entry Name: Church of St Michael and All Angels

Listing Date: 19 March 1962

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1039195

English Heritage Legacy ID: 271740

ID on this website: 101039195

Location: St Michael and All Angels' Church, Penkridge, South Staffordshire, ST19

County: Staffordshire

District: South Staffordshire

Civil Parish: Penkridge

Built-Up Area: Penkridge

Traditional County: Staffordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Staffordshire

Church of England Parish: Penkridge St Michael and All Angels

Church of England Diocese: Lichfield

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