Bilston St Leonard in 1859

BILSTON (ST LEONARD). The LIVING is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the resident Householders; net income, £635. The curacy was originally founded about 1458, by the householders, at that time about fifteen in number, who endowed it with considerable portions of land, which were sequestered in the reign of Edward VI. 

The chapel, dedicated to St. Leonard, was built in the reign of Richard II., and rebuilt in 1826, by the united exertions of the Rev. William Leigh, the then incumbent, and the parishioners.

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