In St. Michael's Church is a plaque which bears the inscription:
Anthonius Byerley de Midridge Grange
Armiger Oli’n Chiliarcha Sub
Celtiguliemo Marchione Novicastrl
Emperatore Exercitus in Partibus
Septem Trionalibus Augustissini
Rigis Croli Primi Hic Humatus Iacet
Obit 22 Aprilis Ano Domini 1667. Ae Tatis

Anthony Byerley of Middridge Grange
One-time commander of 1000 soldiers under
William the Celt (?) Marquis of Newcastle
General of an Army in the Northern Parts
Of the very revered
King Charles I Here he lies buried.
He died on 22nd April 1667 AD aged……

The Church guide book says:
"This brass on the north wall of the choir commemorates Anthony Byerley of Middridge Grange, near Redworth. He held a commission under the Marquis of Newcastle who was the royalist governor of the North. In 1644 the Marquis occupied Newcastle against the Scots and fought several engagements with them. The Marquis and Colonel Byerley went to relieve York which was being attacked by the parliamentary army but they became trapped there until relieved by Prince Rupert. The parliamentary army later defeated them at the Battle of Marston Moor. Byerley returned to Middridge Grange but suffered many penalties imposed by Parliament. He was suspected of spying for the King but was never caught. He immersed himself in parish affairs and loyally supported the vicar, Gilbert Wildbore (1639-61), who like Whitehead in the previous century, was a source of stability during a time of religious controversy and change. Wildbore was forbidden by Parliament from using the Book of Common Prayer and baptising babies. A registrar took weddings, even of a member of the vicar’s family, and burials were allowed no service. Wildbore was turned out of the vicarage and replaced by two parliamentary “ministers of religion”, who fled at the restoration. Wildbore returned as vicar to preside over the Easter Vestry of 1661, again supported by Byerley. He wrote up the parish registers and died later in the same year."