Tunstall nr. Newcastle / Tunestal

There is an entry for Tunstall [variant spelling] in the Domesday surbey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SJ7727/tunstall/] [accessed 14 May 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. The Victoria County History (Stafford, vol. 8, 1963) describes Tunstall as: "the most northerly of the six towns incorporated in the new borough of Stoke-on-Trent in 1910 [...] Tunstall manor, also called Tunstall Court from the 16th century, [...] covered an area which extended to the Cheshire border and included the following townships: Tunstall, Chell, Oldcott, and Ravenscliffe; Burslem and Sneyd; and Chatterley, Brieryhurst, Stadmorslow, Thursfield, Wedgwood, and Bemersley. [...] In 1086 Tunstall may have formed part of Thursfield (in Wolstanton), [...] Between 1212 and 1273 Tunstall, Bemersley, Burslem, Chatterley, Chell, Oldcott, and Thursfield, as well as Whitfield within the Bemersley portion of Tunstall manor, were mentioned as distinct manors or vills, [...] but all, except for Chell, had been merged within the manor of Tunstall by the end of the 13th century. [...] Tunstall, Oldcott, Ravenscliffe, and Chell originally formed part of the chapelry of Newchapel within the ancient parish of Wolstanton. (fn. 350) In the 12th century there was evidently a holy well and hermitage at Tunstall, the property of Trentham Priory, and this presumably lay in the district now known as Holly Wall. [...] By 1366 the lord of Tunstall manor had a chapel in his house at Holly Wall. (fn. 352) A graveyard at Chell was mentioned in 1569. [...] There does not, however, appear to have been a church in Tunstall before the 19th century. [...] C[hrist] C[hurch], Tunstall, was built in 1831–2 [...] The only possible evidence to the contrary is the former open field called Church Field, which evidently lay to the W. of the town, and the discovery at various times of human bones in that area". The VCH (ibid.) gives later dates for the other churches in the area. [NB: we have no information