English Heritage sites near Kemerton Parish
ODDA'S CHAPEL
6 miles from Kemerton Parish
One of the most complete surviving Saxon churches in England, this chapel was built in 1056 by Earl Odda, and rediscovered in 1865 subsumed into a farmhouse. Nearby is the famous Saxon parish church.
HAILES ABBEY
8 miles from Kemerton Parish
Founded by the Earl of Cornwall in thanks for surviving a shipwreck. It housed a renowned relic, ‘the Holy Blood of Hailes’: allegedly a phial of Christ’s blood. Great picnic spot. Audio tours.
BELAS KNAP LONG BARROW
8 miles from Kemerton Parish
A particularly fine example of a Neolithic long barrow of c.3800 BC, featuring a false entrance and side chambers. During excavations in the 1860s, the remains of 31 people were found in the chambers.
OVER BRIDGE
13 miles from Kemerton Parish
A single-arch stone bridge spanning the River Severn, built in 1825-30 by the great engineer Thomas Telford.
GREYFRIARS
13 miles from Kemerton Parish
Substantial remains of an early Tudor friary church of Franciscan 'grey friars' founded in 1231.
BLACKFRIARS
13 miles from Kemerton Parish
One of the most complete surviving Dominican friaries in England, later converted into a Tudor house and cloth factory. Notable features include the church and fine scissor-braced dormitory roof.
Churches in Kemerton Parish
St Nicholas Kemerton
Back Lane
Kemerton
Tewkesbury
01684 293729
The parish church of St Nicholas, Kemerton, has served our village community for almost 1,000 years. As with many such ancient churches, the building was heavily restored in the Victorian era, so what you see does not have quite that sense of a millennium of history. Architecturally, the appeal of the church is to those who admire the work of the Camden Society and the Tractarians - while practically it has left us with a sound building that is very hard to heat.
The church provides a weekly communion service to a small but welcoming congregation, is busy for the great celebrations of Easter, Harvest and Christmas, and can be full for weddings and (sadly) funerals. Our churchmanship is just on the formal side of middling (our Tractarian ancestors would be disappointed in us).
We are in a joint benefice with another St Nicholas' Church, in Ashchurch, and there are a number of very welcome times when one of our two churches provides a benefice service for us both.
Pubs in Kemerton Parish
Crown
High Street, Kemerton, GL20 7HP
(01386) 725020
thecrownkemerton.co.uk/