St. Mary's Church

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The Altar and East Window

The Church of St. Mary, the Virgin, Colton, stands at the entrance to the Village as you turn off the B5013 and cross the Moreton Brook over the narrow hump-backed bridge.  It was largely re-built in 1852 but a church site in Colton is recorded in Norman times.

Click on each picture to see enlarged views of the East and West ends of the Church

  

 

In 20005, following the retirement of
Revd. Prebendary Terry Thake,
 Colton became part of the 5 parish cluster of
Abbots Bromley, Blithfield, Colton, Colwich
 and Great Haywood.
Revd. Simon Davis, Vicar of Abbots Bromley heads
the team of  Revd. Jeffrey Leonardi in  Colton
(who is also the Bishop of Lichfield's Advisor on Pastoral Matters),  Revd. Prebendary Geoffrey Staton,
based in Great Haywood and Revd. Mark Davys
in Colwich.

 

The West End and Bell Tower
 

Details from the stained glass windows will be published on this site in due course

Photographs by courtesy of the late John Heasman

St. Mary's Church has it's own web site accessible
 from the 'Other Sites' page above.
There are some details about the Church Activities
on the other pages listed above.

Two new bells were added in 2001 to give us a ring of 6.

The first quarter peals to be rung in Colton were rung on Saturday 1st June 2002
in Celebration for the Queen's Golden Jubilee.
 
A contact for the Bell-Ringers will be shown on the 'Contact Persons' page