---
title: "Holy Rood, Daglingworth"
description: "Located in Daglingworth, Gloucestershire. Built 11th century; tower and porch 15th century; restored 1845–50. Diocese of Gloucester. Grade I. Anglo-Saxon with Perpendicular tower style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Gloucestershire","Daglingworth","Grade I","Anglo-Saxon","Holy Rood"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/daglingworth-holy-rood"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T01:33:22.511Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-08T16:00:06.382Z"
location: "Daglingworth, Gloucestershire"
country: "England"
county: "Gloucestershire"
town: "Daglingworth"
address: "Church Lane, Daglingworth, Gloucestershire, GL7 7AG"
postcode: "GL7 7AG"
built: "11th century; tower and porch 15th century; restored 1845–50"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Holy Rood"]
diocese: "Gloucester"
grade: "I"
style: "Anglo-Saxon with Perpendicular tower"
materials: "Limestone rubble with dressed quoins; chancel, aisle and vestry of coursed squared limestone; ashlar tower; stone slate roofs"
openingHours: "All day, every day."
parish: "Daglingworth Holy Rood"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1090207"
gridReference: "SO 993 049"
accessNotes: "Accessible toilets in church. Ramp or level access available on request"
---

# Holy Rood, Daglingworth

Holy Rood is a Grade I parish church on Church Lane, Daglingworth, Gloucestershire, in the Diocese of Gloucester and the Ermin West Benefice. It is an Anglo-Saxon church still in weekly use.

## Overview

Historic England records an eleventh- and fifteenth-century church, heavily restored in 1845–50. The nave has long-and-short quoins rebated to resemble pilasters. A narrow eleventh-century south doorway with cable-decorated imposts sits inside the porch, with an eleventh-century mass dial above and a fifteenth-century studded door. The two-stage west tower and gabled south porch are fifteenth-century. The chancel, north aisle and vestry are of 1845–50; the chancel reuses Anglo-Saxon long-and-short work at the east end. A Roman votive stone, reused in the eleventh or twelfth century as a two-light window, is reset in the vestry.

Four eleventh-century carved slabs in the Syrian tradition, formerly built into the chancel arch, were found in 1850 and reset in the nave and north aisle: two Crucifixions, St Peter, and Christ enthroned. A twelfth-century altar with cushion-capital shafts, found when a priest’s chamber was removed, is reset in the chancel. The fifteenth-century octagonal font includes quatrefoil and Tudor-rose decoration. CRSBI dates the sculpture to the late tenth or early eleventh century.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1090207](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1090207)
- [Wikipedia: Church of the Holy Rood, Daglingworth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Rood,_Daglingworth)
- [CRSBI: Holy Rood, Daglingworth](https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=7581)