Wolverhampton St Mary in 1859

WOLVERHAMPTON (ST. MARY).   St. Mary's church, built in 1842, at a cost of £10,000, including the parsonage, at the sole expense of Miss Hinckes, of Tettenhall-Wood, is in the early English style, with a square tower surmounted by a Flemish spire, and has 1000 sittings, of which 400 are free; it contains a superb altar-piece of carved oak, and in the eastern window, of stained glass, are representations of the Descent from the Cross and the Resurrection.

The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of Miss Hinckes, who has endowed it with the interest of £1000, and has also presented a splendid communion-service.

 

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