English Heritage sites near Tedstone Delamere Parish
EDVIN LOACH OLD CHURCH
2 miles from Tedstone Delamere 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.
WITLEY COURT AND GARDENS
6 miles from Tedstone Delamere Parish
A hundred years ago, Witley Court was one of England's great country houses, hosting many extravagant parties. Today it is a spectacular ruin, the result of a disastrous fire in 1937.
LEIGH COURT BARN
6 miles from Tedstone Delamere Parish
An outstanding display of English medieval carpentry, this mighty timber-framed barn is the largest cruck structure in Britain.
ROTHERWAS CHAPEL
16 miles from Tedstone Delamere 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
17 miles from Tedstone Delamere 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.
WIGMORE CASTLE
19 miles from Tedstone Delamere Parish
One of the most important castles in the history of the Welsh Marches and major centre of power for over 500 years, hosting royalty on several occasions. Deliberately demolished during the Civil War.
Churches in Tedstone Delamere Parish
Tedstone Delamere: St James
This church is one of four in the Greater Whitbourne parish in Hereford Diocese.
Accessible only by a footpath across a field, there are superb views over the Severn Valley to the Cotswolds—on a clear day one can see Broadway Tower.
This church stands within an ancient enclosure of possible Bronze Age date. The building was much restored in 1856 and a new chancel built, but the nave is Anglo-Saxon. The simple 12th or 13th century font was banished to the churchyard at the restoration but has now been brought inside and stands beside the grander Victorian one. The screen is 15th – 16th century.
In the porch is a 17th or 18th century bracket, originally for holding the hour-glass used to time the sermon. (An hour! Thankfully our present Rector is briefer.)
Stained glass windows worth a second look are by Hardman (the East window) who also designed the East and West windows of Worcester Cathedral, and Kempe (North wall of the nave, showing Saints John and James).
In the churchyard are the remains of the churchyard cross, the head of which is preserved in a glass case by the lychgate. Can you see the virgin and child on one side, and a crucifix on the other?
No churches found in Tedstone Delamere Parish