Walsall St Matthew in 1859

WALSALL (ST MATTHEW) The LIVING is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at £10.19.7.; net income, about £390; patron, the Earl of Bradford, who, with Col. Walhouse, is impropriator.

The church, an ancient and spacious cruciform structure, with several chapels in the aisles, was, with the exception of the tower and chancel, which latter has undergone several alterations, taken down and rebuilt in the later English style, in 1821, at an expense of £20,000; it occupies a commanding situation on the summit of the rock on which the town is built, and the tower, which is in fine proportion, and surmounted by a lofty spire, forms a conspicuous object in the distant view of the town.

 

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