All Saints, Viney Hill

A Victorian church above Blakeney in the Forest of Dean, begun in 1865 and consecrated in 1867 as a memorial to Charles Bathurst of Lydney Park. Designed by Ewan Christian in a late thirteenth-century style, it is built of local red sandstone with an apsidal chancel...

St Paul’s, Parkend

A Grade II listed church at the heart of Parkend in the Forest of Dean, built in 1822 to an unusual octagonal, cruciform Gothick plan designed by the Reverend Henry Poole. Raised largely by public subscription for the Forest’s mining communities, it keeps its...

St Swithin’s, Quenington

Grade I Norman church in the Cotswold village of Quenington, founded around 1100 and restored in 1882 by Frederick Waller; noted for two 12th-century carved doorways, including the earliest surviving “Coronation of the Virgin” in Europe.

St Mary & St Peter, Tidenham

Grade II* parish church above the River Severn in Tidenham, Forest of Dean, largely C13-C14 with an 1858 restoration by John Norton; its lead font is one of six surviving Gloucestershire fonts cast from the same mould.

St Ethelbert’s, Littledean

Grade I listed parish church in the Forest of Dean village of Littledean, with a tower dating from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries and a curious clock face bearing IX in both the nine and eleven positions. A long-standing focal point for the village, overlooking...