St Mary's RC Church
Churches in Stafford, Staffordshire
Overlooking the Shropshire Union canal at the western edge of the village, St Mary's Catholic church was formally opened in June 1844. It was designed by Augustus Welby Pugin in the Early English style and was built at a cost of J1, 345. It is beautifully in context for such a village as Brewood and is a testimony to the generosity of the Giffard family who gave the land for the church and churchyard and the early parish priests upkeep. The high altar is very simple, its only decoration being a lamb and flag motif deeply recessed beneath the altar table.
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Who we are
read moreThe parish of St Mary's, Brewood, is part of the Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham, England, and is served from the historic church of St Mary's, Brewood, next to the Shropshire Union Canal. Before the pandemic, we celebrated a weekly Sunday 9am Mass at St Michael's Anglican Church in Penkridge but, under current circumstances, this Mass is being celebrated at St Mary's Brewood. The parish serves the area of rural Staffordshire between Wolverhampton and Stafford, including the villages of Brewood, Penkridge, Wheaton Aston, Bishops Wood and Coven and their surrounding areas.
History
read moreThe presence of the Giffard family, the owners of the Chilllington estate, allowed the Catholic faith to continue to be practiced through the difficult times of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Giffards kept a priest who cared for the other Catholics of the area. During the Civil War, it was the Catholic families at White Ladies and Boscobel who sheltered Charles II who, in turn, promised toleration for the Catholics of the area as an act of thanks. The Giffards provided Chapels at Blackladies and at Longbirch which was for some time the residence of a number of the Bishops (Vicars Apostolic) who served the Midland District.
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