CASTLE-CHURCH, a parish in the eastern division
of the hundred of CUTTLESTONE, county of STAFFORD,
1 mile (S. W.) from Stafford, containing 1118
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of Lichfield and-
Coventry,; endowed with £200 private benefaction, £700
royal bounty, and £ 1500 parliamentary grant; and in
the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated
to St. Lawrence. Near that part of the town of" Stafford
lying in this parish is a Roman Catholic chapel,
built in 1822, by the late Edward- Jerningham, Esq.; it
is a small but elegant structure, containing seventeen of
the .old stalls taken from Lichfield cathedral,- and- has a
noble organ. There is a school adjoining, founded
and endowed by the same benevolent individual, which
is open to children of all religious denominations.