English Heritage sites near Kentchurch Parish
LONGTOWN CASTLE
6 miles from Kentchurch Parish
A powerful thick-walled round keep of c.1150 on a large earthen mound within a stone-walled bailey. Set in the beautiful Olchon valley, with magnificent views of the Black Mountains.
ROTHERWAS CHAPEL
10 miles from Kentchurch 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.
GOODRICH CASTLE
11 miles from Kentchurch Parish
Goodrich stands majestically on a wooded hill commanding the passage of the River Wye into the picturesque valley of Symonds Yat.
ARTHUR'S STONE
12 miles from Kentchurch Parish
An atmospheric Neolithic burial chamber, made of great stone slabs in the hills above Herefordshire's Golden Valley.
ST MARY'S CHURCH, KEMPLEY
16 miles from Kentchurch 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.
ST BRIAVELS CASTLE
16 miles from Kentchurch Parish
The fine twin-towered gatehouse, built by Edward I in 1292, once defended a crossbow bolt factory which used local iron. Once a prison, now a youth hostel in wonderful walking country.
Churches in Kentchurch Parish
Kentchurch: St Mary
Kentchurch
Hereford
07973 237383
http://www.stmaryskentchurch.org
St Mary's Kentchurch is part of the Ewyas Harold Group of Parishes. www.kentchurch.org.uk
The village name suggests that the original dedication was to the 5th century nun Saint Cein / Keyne, or more possibly her sister Saint Ceingar. Both daughters of King Brychan of Brycheiniog/Breconshire, Saint Ceingar's son was the Saint Cynidr of Kenderchurch. Certainly Saint Ceingar founded a church, usually said to be in Maelienydd, north-east Radnorshire, but it could have been the church at Kentchurch. Although the present church is in the style of c.1290-1350, it was rebuilt in 1859 by the Scudamore family of nearby Kentchurch Court.
A number of 17th and 18th monuments and floor-slabs were retained from the old church. That commemorating John Scudamore, 1616, also depicts his widow and their ten children, one a baby in a cradle. The bells were cast by the famous firm of Abraham Rudhall of Gloucester, who cast hundreds of bells between 1684 and 1835, and are rung regularly.
SERVICES. Our usual church services are as follows.
1st Sunday - 11.15 am Holy Communion CW Order One Contemporary Language
You are most welcome to join us.
Pubs in Kentchurch Parish
Bridge Inn
Kentchurch, HR2 0BY
(01981) 241158
thebridgeinnkentchurch.com/