Churches and Chapels of Stoke-on-Trent

St Phillip and St. James C of E, Milton

Minister: Rev. David M. B. Wilmot (in Dec 1999)

Opened by licence from the Bishop on 13th August 1848 at a cost of £426 which was given, together with the land, by Lord Norton. In 1865 the church and burial ground were consecrated. In 1868 the church was enlarged.

Lord Norton was a philanthropist and a North Staffs M.P. who, in 1878, entered the House of Lords and became Baron Norton of Norton-le-Moors, Staffordshire.

Postcard of St. Phillip and St. James, Milton