Church Of The Holy Jesus

SO 61 NW LYDBROOK CENTRAL LYDBROOK

2/48 Church of the Holy Jesus

II

Parish Church, 1851, by Henry Woodyer. Coursed rubble stone, tiled roof. West tower with flanking lean-to structures and gabled south porch, nave with clerestory, single storey aisles, separate chancel with lower roofline than nave. 3 stage tower with string courses, and corbel table below saddleback roof. Large ogee 4-arched opening in first stage with 2 centre lights, single pointed light to second stage, twin light with pointed trefoil tracery at belfry level, and single light in gable of roof. Clasped stepped buttresses at west end and cut off in nave roof. 5-bay nave with small pointed trefoil twin lights in clerestory. 2- and 3-light decorated Geometric tracery windows in aisles with single stepped buttress towards east, 3 similar twin light windows in chancel, and 5-light at east end with cusped star of David. Interior: elaborate timber roof with scissor-beam trusses and wind bracing. Pointed arcades on cylindrical columns. In chancel - stone diapering on reredos wall; wooden altar rail with pierced arch and trefoil decoration; double sedilia under traceried rere- arch of easternmost window on south side. Original pews in nave and aisles. Stone font in south west corner with ogee decoration and wooden cover with pierced and gabled design. (David Verey, Buildings of England, Gloucestershire: the Vale and the Forest of Dean, p.292, 1970

Listing NGR: SO6040615690