Church of the Holy Jesus is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. A Victorian Church.
Church of the Holy Jesus
- WRENN ID
- guardian-footing-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Church of the Holy Jesus, Lydbrook
- OS grid reference
- SO 604 156
- Coordinates
- 51.83841, -2.57607
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Jesus is a parish church built in 1851 by Henry Woodyer. It features coursed rubble stone and a tiled roof. The structure includes a west tower flanked by lean-to structures and a gabled south porch. The nave has a clerestory and single-storey aisles, while the chancel has a lower roofline than the nave. The three-stage tower has string courses and a corbel table beneath a saddleback roof. It has a large ogee opening with four arches in the first stage, featuring two centre lights, a single pointed light in the second stage, and a twin light with pointed trefoil tracery at the belfry level, along with a single light in the gable of the roof. Clasped stepped buttresses are present at the west end and are cut off in the nave roof. The nave is five bays wide and has small pointed trefoil twin lights in the clerestory. The aisles contain two- and three-light windows with decorated Geometric tracery, and there is a single stepped buttress towards the east. The chancel has three similar twin light windows and a five-light window at the east end featuring a cusped star of David.
Inside, the church boasts an elaborate timber roof with scissor-beam trusses and wind bracing, along with pointed arcades supported by cylindrical columns. The chancel features stone diapering on the reredos wall, a wooden altar rail with pierced arches and trefoil decoration, and double sedilia beneath a traceried rere-arch of the easternmost window on the south side. The original pews remain in the nave and aisles, and there is a stone font in the southwest corner with ogee decoration and a wooden cover featuring a pierced and gabled design.
Local climate
Church of the Holy Jesus receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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