Description
Castle-Church, a parish in Staffordshire, adjoining the south-western suburbs, partly within the borough of Stafford, and including the liberty of Forebridge and the townships of Burton and Rickerscote. Post town, Stafford. Acreage, 3933; population of the civil parish, 6384; of the ecclesiastical, 1154. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield; net value, £182 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The church is an ancient building, partly Norman and Early English, and was restored in 1844. It is situated near Stafford Castle. St Paul's, Forebridge, is a separate ecclesiastical parish within the borough of Stafford. The church is a cruciform edifice erected in 1844.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
