English Heritage sites near King's Stanley Parish
NYMPSFIELD LONG BARROW
2 miles from King's Stanley Parish
Large Neolithic burial mound with spectacular views over the Severn Valley. Built by earliest farming communities in the Cotswolds almost 5,000 years ago. Internal chambers are uncovered for viewing.
ULEY LONG BARROW (HETTY PEGLER'S TUMP)
3 miles from King's Stanley Parish
A partly reconstructed Neolithic chambered mound, 37 metres (120 ft) long, atmospherically sited overlooking the Severn Valley. 'Hetty Pegler' was its 17th century landowner.
WINDMILL TUMP LONG BARROW, RODMARTON
8 miles from King's Stanley Parish
A Neolithic chambered tomb with an enigmatic 'false entrance'. Opinions vary as to why this false entrance was built.
GREAT WITCOMBE ROMAN VILLA
8 miles from King's Stanley Parish
The remains of a large and luxurious villa built about AD 250, with a bathhouse complex, perhaps the shrine of a water spirit, and mosaics.
KINGSWOOD ABBEY GATEHOUSE
8 miles from King's Stanley Parish
This 16th century gatehouse, one of the latest monastic buildings in England, displays a richly sculpted mullioned window. It is the sole survivor of this Cistercian abbey.
BLACKFRIARS
9 miles from King's Stanley 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 King's Stanley Parish
All Saints
Selsley
Gloucester
01453 750558
http://allsaintsselsley.org.uk
Our Church
“Selsley is to Victorian stained glass what Fairford is to late Gothic” (1). All Saints Selsley is most unusual; just over 150 years old, with its distinctive saddleback tower and its French Gothic gables, it is the last of the great Cotswold wool churches. Under William Morris’s leadership, the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood (including Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown and Philip Webb) made All Saints their first stained glass commission. The result is a gem which attracts visitors from all over the world
Notes: (1) England’s Thousand Best Churches pg 226 by Sir Simon Jenkins
St George's
St George's Avenue north side
King's Stanley
Kings Stanley Stonehouse
01453 823172
http://stgeorgeskingsstanley.uk
St George’s church has been a centre of Christian worship for more than 800 years. Remnants of Norman doorways and windows can be seen, though now the interior is Gothic in style, re-created in 1876, with well-made carved chancel fittings and a painted barrel-vault ceiling. The Victorian organ made by a local craftsman is particularly fine in both appearance and tone. The extensive churchyard with its avenue of clipped yew-trees has many 17th to 19th century tombstones. A full survey of the inscriptions is available in the church.
The church seats about 130. Since 2013 the Benefiice of the Stanleys with Selsley.
Pubs in King's Stanley Parish
Bell Inn
Bell Lane, Stroud, Selsley, GL5 5JY
(01453) 753801
thebellinnselsley.com/
King's Head
A large village local standing imposingly on a road junction and on the Cotswold Way. The public bar has a separate area with a pool table. There is a comfortable lounge, skittle alley and upstairs a function room that doubles as a family r...