Breedon-on-the-Hill

This parish church of St Mary and St Hardulph was formerly the church of an Augustinian Priory founded early C12. Formally a fortified hilltop a monastery was established there by the C7. The first Abbot Hedda became the second bishop of Lichfield in 691. The monastery was destroyed by the Danes and not re-established until the foundation of the Augustinian Priory in early C12, the church was remodeled in the C13 with a long and wide chancel which is today's nave.

Preserved within the church are a number of fragments of Anglo Saxon stone carvings from the C8. Additionally the church has three late Tudor tomb monuments to the Shirely family, made by Richard & Gilbert Royley of Burton-upon-Trent.