There are few notable memorials within the church but the surrounding graveyard has strange tales to tell. One story of legendary fame concerns the tomb of Miss Margaret Leigh who was buried here on April Fool's Day, 1748. After she had been interred, the mourners returned to her home at Jackfield (Hamil), only to be surprised by the ghost of the departed, sitting in the nook, knitting at a fane old rate, just as she used to. Parson Spencer, who had only just buried her, was fetched. He thought it fitting to lay the ghost and pacify folk's minds. At the dead of night, the parson, accompanied by the clerk and sexton, carrying a lantern and candle, returned to the grave. They took up the coffin, dug another grave crossways, and laid her out in the shape of an oozel (blackbird), and so pacified the ghost of Molly Leigh.

There was also an ancient stone coffin that many years ago, lay exposed in the churchyard. It was hewn to the shape of a body which was reputedly that of Lady Elizabeth, widow of Nicholas, 5th Baron Audley. She must have been very tall and thin, as the inside dimensions were only 14in across the shoulders, but 6ft. 3ins. from head to foot.

This coffin, and other similar remains of antiquity, are said to have been brought from Hulton Abbey when its foundations were dug up several centuries ago."