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Parish Church of St Mary

A Grade I Listed Building in Chepstow, Monmouthshire

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  • St Mary: Priory church with Norman west front with c12 door of five orders

  • St Mary: Norman nave; chancel built c19

  • St Mary: Norman arcades with rectangular piers

  • St Mary: monument to Henry Somerset, second Earl of Worcester d.1549; Corinthian columns

  • St Mary: Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester, d.1549

  • St Mary: Elizabeth (Browne of Betchworth Castle), wife of Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester; Lady in Waiting to Anne Boleyn & possible contributor to her downfall

  • St Mary: Margaret Cleyton, d.1627, two husbands & twelve children

  • St Mary: Margaret Cleyton, d.1627, recumbent effigy & two kneeling husbands; time & skeleton behind husbands

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Entry Name: Parish Church of St Mary

Listing Date: 12 June 1950

Grade: I

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 2594

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

ID on this website: 300002594

Location: Situated at the lower end of the street, now close to the by-pass, within a churchyard crossed by a railed walkway leading to Lower Church Street.

County: Monmouthshire

Town: Chepstow

Community: Chepstow (Cas-gwent)

Community: Chepstow

Built-Up Area: Chepstow

Traditional County: Monmouthshire

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