The interior has an oak panelled ceiling, and contains a few monumental tablets and hatchments, most of the ancient memorials having been removed on the fall of the church to other places.
This chapel is now used as a daily parochial school, and for reading the burial service connected with the spacious cemetery in which it stands.
Among the monuments is one to the memory of that excellent man, the Rev. Job Orton, V.D.M. who “being dead, yet speaketh,” in the forcible discourses and truly admirable writings he has left behind. He was the friend and biographer of Doddridge, and died 16th July, 1783, aged 66. His remains were interred at his request in the grave of the Rev. J. Bryan, M.A. an ejected minister from this church.
A humble gravestone near the railway leading towards Belmont records the death of Capt. John Benbow, who was shot at the Castle, Oct. 16th, 1651, for his attachment to the cause of King Charles the Second.
Several members of ancient families and distinguished individuals connected with the town and county, received interment in this church. Among these may be mentioned those of Corbet, Mytton, Burton, Owen, Lyster, and Ireland.
Rowland Lee, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, and Lord President of the Marches, was buried here. He died Jan. 27th, 1542–3, at the College, the residence of his brother, Sir George Lee, who was the last dean of the church.
THE NEW CHURCH OF SAINT CHAD
is erected on a beautiful site near the Quarry, and, considering the disadvantages of form which preclude the possibility of much architectural effect, it may be looked upon as an ornamental building.
The church is formed by the intersection of two circles, with a tower and portico attached; the smaller of the circles forming the grand staircase, and the larger one the body, chancel, and side staircases leading to the gallery. On each side of the tower is a square wing 24 feet by 19, appropriated for a vestry and robing room.