Abandoed cemetery at the now demolished Chapel of Ease of St Mary at Jackfield. Now an overgrown wooded area with some grave stones still standing.
"The church of ST. MARY, Jackfield, was built in 1759 as a chapel of ease to Broseley at Mary Browne's expense. Surplice fees were reserved to the rector of Broseley, and in 1766 Mrs. Anne Browne, of Benthall, endowed the curacy with £20 a year and the clerk with £2 10s. a year out of Woodhouse farm. The curacy or perpetual curacy (as it was called in 1835) was in the gift of the owners of the Broseley Hall estate. It was worth £40 in 1835, which was paid to the curate who served there. In 1861 George Pritchard left £150 a year for the Jackfield curacy provided that Jackfield was constituted a separate ecclesiastical parish. Jackfield parish was accordingly formed out of Broseley in 1862. The patronage of the new living was divided between Francis Harries of Cruckton, owner of Broseley Hall, and the rector of Broseley, presenting alternately. The patronage was conveyed to the bishop of Hereford in 1927.
In 1851 attendance averaged 53 adults and 125 children in the morning, 110 adults and 50 children in the evening. Evening service was held in the National school at Calcutts, as the church stood some distance from the riverside settlement.
A parish room opened in 1931.
In 1863 the living was worth £104 derived from £1,000 given by George Pritchard together with a matching grant by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, £20 from Queen Anne's Bounty, and £20 from Woodhouse farm, the latter a revision of the original endowment. The income was augmented by £24 10s. in 1864 when the rectorial tithes arising from Jackfield were annexed to the living, which became a rectory in 1866. Following a benefaction and further endowments the living was worth £150 in 1871, £170 in 1900, and £348 in 1932.
In 1851 the curate lived close to the church at Rock House; in 1891 the rector resided at the Dunge in Broseley. A parsonage, designed by Ewan Christian, was built in 1893 near Rock House. It stood 1 km. south-west of the new church. The site, convenient for the old church, had been given in 1865 by W. O. Foster.
Old St. Mary's, reputedly designed by T. F. Pritchard, was of red brick with stone dressings and comprised nave, chancel, and west tower with flanking vestries. Its details suggest the influence of Gibbs's Book of Architecture (1738). It seated 188 adults, and 88 children in a gallery. It had a graveyard which served Jackfield until at least 1879. In 1832 a cholera burial ground opened nearby. The Pritchard Memorial, or new, church, built by subscription, opened at Calcutts in 1863 on land given by Francis Harries. Annual services continued at the old church until the 1920s, but it was demolished c. 1961, having been ruinous for several decades."
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