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Stoke Church of England History....
"The church, which is and ancient building of stone, will be taken down when the new edifice, which is erecting under the auspices of the parliamentary commissioners, shall be perfected. The church contains a handsome monument to the memory of the late Josiah Wedgwood who was interred here in 1795."
[From: Pigot & Co's 1828/9 Directory of Staffordshire]"The old church, dedicated to St Peter, has given place to a handsome new one, erected in 1826; it is in the later style of English architecture, and contains one thousand six hundred sittings. The handsome monument erected in the old church to the memory of the highly respected Josiah Wedgwood, Esq., where he was interred in 1795, has been put up in the new church. The benefice is a rectory."
[From: Pigot & Co's 1841 Directory of Staffordshire]"The church of St. Peter ad Vincula was rebuilt 1826-29 in E. Eng. style It contains monuments
to Josiah Wedgwood (d. 1796), with bust by Flaxman, and Sarah, his wife (d. 1815). There are also eccl. pas. with modern churches,"
[From: 1898 Cassell's 'Gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland']
Stoke Parish & Chapelry history....
"The parish of Stoke-upon-Trent comprises about two thirds of the populous district called the Staffordshire Potteries, including all the towns and villages lying south of Burslem and east of Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Though now containing upwards of 55,000 inhabitants and about 12,000 acres of land, it was formerly of much greater extent, until it was reduced by an Act of Parliament, passed in 1807, entitled 'An Act for separating the Chapelries and Chapels of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Burslem, Whitmore, Bucknall-cum-Bagnall, and Norton-in-the-Moors from the Rectory and Parish Church of Stoke-upon-Trent, and for making them five distinct rectories'.
[From History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire, William White, Sheffield, 1851]
Stoke Nonconformist & Catholic Church History....
"Here are also two meeting houses for dissenters."
[From: Pigot & Co's 1828/9 Directory of Staffordshire]"Throughout the parish there are places of worship for the various classes of dissenters;"
[From: Pigot & Co's 1841 Directory of Staffordshire]"..a Catholic church, and places of worship for various Nonconformist bodies."
[From: 1898 Cassell's 'Gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland']
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