St Bridget, Skenfrith
St Bridget, Skenfrith
St Bridget’s (also St Bride; Welsh Sant Ffraid) is a Grade I Church in Wales parish church at the north end of Skenfrith, Monmouthshire, about 100 metres north-west of Skenfrith Castle, in the Diocese of Monmouth.
- Location
- Skenfrith, Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- County
- Monmouthshire
- City / town
- Skenfrith
- Address
- Skenfrith, Monmouthshire, NP7 8UB
- Postcode
- NP7 8UB
- Built
- c.1199–1216; aisles C13–C15; roofs 1896; restored 1909–10
- Architect
- E. G. Davies (1896 roofs); William Weir with S.P.A.B. (1909–10 restoration)
- Denomination
- Church in Wales
- Dedication
- Bridget
- Diocese
- Monmouth
- Parish
- Skenfrith
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Medieval, with Perpendicular windows
- Materials
- Reddish random rubble with quoins; stone slate roofs
- Grid reference
- SO 456 203
- Opening hours
- Open daily.
- Access
- Accessible toilets nearby. Level access to the main areas
Overview
Cadw records the earliest phase as believed to date from the reign of King John (1199–1216), with aisles added or replaced in the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries (reference 2082; designated 19 November 1953). The church was repaired in the later seventeenth century; nave and chancel roofs were renewed in 1896 by E. G. Davies; William Weir of London restored it in 1909–10 in consultation with the S.P.A.B. It is reddish random rubble with a squat west tower of a Welsh-borders type, a low two-stage timber-framed ‘dovecote’ belfry and a pyramidal roof. The interior has four-bay aisle arcades, a font dated 1661, and the chest tomb of John Morgan (d. 1557), last governor of the Three Castles. Cadw lists it at Grade I as an important medieval church minimally restored, with an exceptionally good interior.