Tettenhall in 1859

TETTENHALL-REGIS (ST. MICHAEL), a parish, in the union of SEISDON, partly in the N. and partly in the S. division of the hundred of SEISDON, S. division of the county of STAFFORD, if mile (N. W.) from Wolverhampton; containing, with the prebends of Bovenhill, Pendeford, Pirton with Trescott, and Wrottesley, 3143 inhabitants, of whom 2207 are in the township of Tettenhall Regis and Clericorum. The parish comprises 7551a.1r.27p., of which the surface is undulated, and the scenery very picturesque: part of the population is engaged in the manufacture of locks of all descriptions, hinges, bolts, spectacle-frames, &c.

There are several excellent residences here, the largest of which is Wrottesley Hall, the seat of Lord Wrottesley, surrounded with good land and wood. The village stands nearly in the centre of the parish, at the foot and on the declivities of a lofty eminence; the Worcestershire and Staffordshire canal passes through it, and is joined here by the Liverpool and Birmingham canal.

The living is a perpetual curacy, with a net income of  £196; patron and impropriator, Lord Wrottesley. The church, which was made collegiate before the Conquest for a dean and four prebendaries, is in the early, decorated, and later English styles, and was enlarged in 1825, and thoroughly repaired in 1841, at a cost of  £1475; the eastern window contains an ancient painting on glass, representing the archangel trampling on a dragon; the font, curiously ornamented with sculpture, was restored in 1844. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans; also a national and infants school. 

An 1859 Gazetteer description of the following places in Tettenhall is to be found on a supplementary page.

• Compton
• Pendeford
• Pirton-with-Trescott
• Trescott
• Wrottesley

 

[Description(s) from The Topographical Dictionary of England (1859) by Samuel Lewis - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]