page_title: Stone Priory
section_title: Dissolution
hierarchical_section_title: Stone Priory / Dissolution
caption_attribution_description: English: St Michael and St Wulfad's Church on Lichfield Street, Stone, Staffordshire. Monument of William II Crompton (d.1603) of Stone and of his wife Jane Aston, daughter of Sir Walter Aston of Tixall, Staffs. His father William I Crompton originally from Stafford, made his fortune in London and after the Dissolution of the Monasteries purchased former monastical property, including the priory of Stone. In 1562 William I Crompton was granted a coat of arms, but they were rejected by the heralds in 1583. William II Crompton's son was Thomas Crompton (c.1580–1645), MP for Staffordshire 1614, 1621 and 1628. (Source: CROMPTON, Thomas (c.1580-1645), of Stone and Little Fenton, Staffs. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010[1]). The monument was originally in the chancel of the Church of Stone Priory, demolished in 1750s and replaced on the same site by the present church of St Michael and St Wulfad. It remains now in the churchyard, decaying from the weather.
context_page_description: Stone Priory was a priory founded at Stone in Staffordshire, England, in about 670 AD. The priory's church was dedicated to Saint Mary and Saint Wulfad, a local seventh-century martyr and supposedly a son of King Wulfhere of Mercia, who ruled from 658 until his death in 675. The mid-15th century Rimed Chronicle of Stone Priory, found at the Priory at the Dissolution of the Monasteries, records the founding legend and the names of the Stafford family patrons up to 1403, and the places of their burials.
context_section_description: Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII (1509-1547), the Priory was purchased by  William I Crompton, a merchant from Stafford who made his fortune in London. In 1562 he  was granted a coat of arms, but they were rejected by the heralds in 1583. His son was William II Crompton (d.1603) of Stone, who married  Jane Aston, a daughter of Sir Walter Aston of Tixall, Staffordshire. 
  William II Crompton's chest tomb with recumbent effigies of himself and his wife survives, exposed to the elements and much decayed, in the churchyard of St Michael and St Wulfad, but was originally situated within the priory church. William II Crompton's son was Thomas Crompton (c.1580–1645), MP for Staffordshire  1614, 1621 and 1628.
caption: Effigies of William II Crompton (d.1603) of Stone, whose father purchased Stone Priory at the Dissolution, and his wife Jane Aston, churchyard of St Michael and St Wulfad, Stone
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