On Tuesday 12th August 1856 the Bishop of Hereford and numerous other clergy assembled at the new vicarage and then processed to the south porch of the new church (pictured) for its consecration at 12 noon. Afterwards everyone went to the old rectory at Cradley and “partook of luncheon, elegantly laid out in a tent erected near the new schools.”

The ‘new’ vicarage in Storridge was also designed by Frederick Preedy. Storridge’s first vicar to take up residence there was the Rev. Richard Davis, a middle-aged Irishman, who held the living for just over twenty years.

Changing circumstances in the 20th century have meant that the parish of Storridge is once again in the care of the Rector of Cradley, who also serves Mathon. The last vicar of Storridge was the Rev. E. C. Moir, who left in 1956 – exactly one hundred years after the church was founded – after 17 years as vicar and tutor to numerous boys in the district. For the next 5 years there were priests in charge, but since 1961 Storridge has had no resident vicar and the vicarage is now a private house.