---
title: "All Saints, Forden"
description: "Located in Forden, Powys. Built Early C15; thoroughly restored 1856. Diocese of Hereford. Grade II*. Timber-framed style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Other","Powys","Forden","Trelystan","Grade II*","Timber-framed","Church of England","Hereford"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/all-saints-forden"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T01:42:05.834Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-08T00:33:28.566Z"
location: "Forden, Powys"
country: "Wales"
county: "Powys"
town: "Forden"
address: "Forden, Powys, SY21 8LA"
postcode: "SY21 8LA"
built: "Early C15; thoroughly restored 1856"
denomination: "Other"
dedications: ["All Saints"]
diocese: "Hereford"
grade: "II*"
style: "Timber-framed"
materials: "Timber frame with painted brick nogging on a rubble stone plinth; slate roof"
openingHours: "Sorry, there are no regular opening times for this church."
parish: "Trelystan"
listEntryUrl: "https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?id=19546"
gridReference: "SJ 263 039"
accessNotes: "Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby"
---

# All Saints, Forden

All Saints (also known as St Mary the Virgin, Trelystan) is a Grade II* church high on Long Mountain in the community of Forden with Leighton and Trelystan, Powys. Cadw lists it as the only surviving timber-framed church in Montgomeryshire. The historic parish lies in Wales but remains in the Church of England Diocese of Hereford.

## Overview

Cadw dates an early fifteenth-century church thoroughly restored in 1856, when the timber frame was encased with painted brick nogging on a rubble plinth. The plan is a single-cell nave and chancel under one slate roof, with south porch, weatherboarded west bellcote with pyramidal roof, and a north vestry. Windows are timber-mullioned with trefoil heads; the east window has intersecting timber tracery.

The interior keeps a fifteenth-century arched-braced roof with some nineteenth-century timber, hammer beams (said to be sawn-off tie beams, now with iron ties) and cusped wind bracing. Walls are boarded in pitch pine. Cadw notes a five-light fragment of a medieval rood screen, a Perpendicular-style octagonal font, and flagstones with seventeenth- and eighteenth-century memorial slabs. The east glass of the Garden of Gethsemane is said to be by David Evans of Shrewsbury; a later stained-glass catalogue attributes an 1857 east window to Charles Clutterbuck.

## Further Information

- [Cadw listed building 19546](https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?id=19546)
- [Coflein NPRN 149330](https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/149330/)