St Matthew’s, Marstow

Flooding caused the original church to be moved to Brelston Green in 1855.

The church is a Grade II listed Victorian building designed by Thomas Nicholson and is a pretty country church with a four-bay nave with bellcote, two-bay chancel, vestry and south porch.

From the churchyard there are wonderful south facing views overlooking cottages, farms and streams towards Goodrich, Symond’s Yat and the Forest of Dean.

The churchyard and church are surrounded by stone boundary walls and gates. The base of the old churchyard cross can be found near the yew tree.

The bellcote contains two bells which came from the original church with the oldest bell cast in Gloucester in 1320. Also moved to the new site was the medieval plain octagonal bowl of the font.

Behind the altar is a stunning carved alabaster reredos of the Last Supper which was designed and carved by R.L. Boulton of Cheltenham.

A fine stained glass window at the east end is entitled “The Raising of Jairus’s Daughter” and is believed to be by William Wailes. There are five other stained glass windows in the church.

In 2019 a community space was created at the back of the nave so giving the Marstow community its only public meeting place.