English Heritage sites near Rowlstone Parish
LONGTOWN CASTLE
3 miles from Rowlstone 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.
ARTHUR'S STONE
10 miles from Rowlstone Parish
An atmospheric Neolithic burial chamber, made of great stone slabs in the hills above Herefordshire's Golden Valley.
ROTHERWAS CHAPEL
12 miles from Rowlstone 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
14 miles from Rowlstone Parish
Goodrich stands majestically on a wooded hill commanding the passage of the River Wye into the picturesque valley of Symonds Yat.
ST BRIAVELS CASTLE
18 miles from Rowlstone 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.
ST MARY'S CHURCH, KEMPLEY
19 miles from Rowlstone 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.
Churches in Rowlstone Parish
Rowlestone: St Peter
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Main road through village
Rowlestone
Hereford 12 miles north/Abergavenny 12 miles south
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https://www.abbeydoredeanery.org/
St Peter's Rowlestone is part of the Ewyas Harold Group of Parishes. (St Peter's Llancillo was closed in 2006.)
This simple Norman church was built about 1130, consisting of an aisle-less nave and a chancel possibly with a semi-circular apse. The chancel arch and south doorway are outstanding specimens of the famous Kilpeck school of decorative sculpture (the Herefordshire School of Romanesque Sculpture) - see entry for St Mary & St David's Kilpeck.
No churches found in Rowlstone Parish