English Heritage sites near Stoke Edith Parish
ROTHERWAS CHAPEL
4 miles from Stoke Edith Parish
Family chapel of the Bodenham family. The originally simple medieval building has a fine Elizabethan timber roof, 18th century tower and striking Victorian interior decoration and furnishings.
ST MARY'S CHURCH, KEMPLEY
7 miles from Stoke Edith Parish
Delightful Norman church, displaying one of the most outstandingly complete and well preserved sets of medieval wall paintings in England, dating from the 12th and 14th centuries.
EDVIN LOACH OLD CHURCH
12 miles from Stoke Edith Parish
The ruins of an 11th century and later church built within the earthworks of a Norman motte and bailey castle, with a Victorian church nearby. The site of hundreds of years of worship.
GOODRICH CASTLE
13 miles from Stoke Edith Parish
Goodrich stands majestically on a wooded hill commanding the passage of the River Wye into the picturesque valley of Symonds Yat.
LEIGH COURT BARN
14 miles from Stoke Edith Parish
An outstanding display of English medieval carpentry, this mighty timber-framed barn is the largest cruck structure in Britain.
ARTHUR'S STONE
18 miles from Stoke Edith Parish
An atmospheric Neolithic burial chamber, made of great stone slabs in the hills above Herefordshire's Golden Valley.
Churches in Stoke Edith Parish
Stoke Edith: St Mary
Parish church. C14 west tower with C17 recessed needle spire capped in 1940, nave and chancel rebuilt between 1740 and 1743 by Henry Flitcroft,
Clerk of Works to Crown for Thomas Foley. Dressed and coursed sandstone rubble to tower with ashlar dressings. Stuccoed brick nave and chancel,
slate roof. West tower, nave and chancel. West tower, four stages with diagonal buttressing and recessed needle spire (now capped); 2-light
windows to bell-stage and single lights to lower stages, door to west on ground floor; nave and chancel, five bays, doorways to first and
last bays with moulded architraves and panelled doors, oculus above each door, three semi-circular-headed arched windows with pronounced
keystones and imposts, brackets to sills. Interior: pair of giant Tuscan columns separate entrance bay and body of church, similar columns separate
marbled chancel end. Fittings: contemporary box pews remain intact.
Font: small marble bowl supported on wrought iron stand.
Monuments: on north wall of entrance bay, late C15 tomb with alabaster effigy of female in contemporary dress; many other wall tablets commemorating members of Foley family.
No churches found in Stoke Edith Parish