English Heritage sites near Byton Parish
WIGMORE CASTLE
4 miles from Byton Parish
One of the most important castles in the history of the Welsh Marches and major centre of power for over 500 years, hosting royalty on several occasions. Deliberately demolished during the Civil War.
CLUN CASTLE
11 miles from Byton Parish
11th century Welsh Border castle with dramatic riverside location and extensive earthworks built to proclaim Norman dominance. Tall 13th century keep is unusually set on the side of its mound.
STOKESAY CASTLE
12 miles from Byton Parish
Stokesay Castle is quite simply the finest and best preserved fortified medieval manor house in England.
ARTHUR'S STONE
13 miles from Byton Parish
An atmospheric Neolithic burial chamber, made of great stone slabs in the hills above Herefordshire's Golden Valley.
EDVIN LOACH OLD CHURCH
19 miles from Byton Parish
The ruins of an 11th century and later church built within the earthworks of a Norman motte and bailey castle, with a Victorian church nearby. The site of hundreds of years of worship.
ROTHERWAS CHAPEL
19 miles from Byton Parish
Family chapel of the Bodenham family. The originally simple medieval building has a fine Elizabethan timber roof, 18th century tower and striking Victorian interior decoration and furnishings.
Churches in Byton Parish
Byton: St Mary
Byton
Presteigne
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http://www.arrowvalechurches.org.uk/
St. Mary’s, Byton, is one of the least known churches, but historically one of the most interesting, a reflection of local and national events. People have worshipped here for 1300 years, near the Iron Age settlement on Wapley Hill and overlooking the Lugg Valley into Wales. But the Border was always an unsettled area of murderous raiding. “Boctune” in 1066 was held of the King by the Norman Osbern fitz Richard.
The Saxon Church was rebuilt by the Normans (windows and door arch are shown on a sketch dated 1850). Raids by Welsh Princes destroyed Byton’s Churches in 1262 and 1402, but they were rebuilt, and the manor prospered in spite of the Black Death.
The 15th Century Church survived until a fire in 1857. The subsequent Victorian replacement incorporated few traces of earlier churches though the font, and the tympanum on the south wall, date from the late 11th Century and the tombs in the nave from the 17th. The clock is a memorial to those killed in the Great War.
No churches found in Byton Parish