Postcode
NP26 3AD

Sunday Services
1st, 2nd & 3rd Sundays – 9.30 – Holy Eucharist
4th Sunday – 11 am Morning Worship

Worship

We gather weekly to worship God together. On the 1st, 2nd & 4th Sundays of the month we gather around God’s table to share the Eucharist, sing hymns and hear from his Word. On the 3rd Sunday of the month we have Morning Prayer, we sing hymns and hear from God’s Word.

Map & Accessibility

Parking – adjacent to the churchyard and along the lane used to access the church.

Churchyard – There is a steep ramp up to the churchyard and a slightly sloped path up through the churchyard itself.

Church – There is a step down into the church.

Toilets – There is an accessible port-loo beside the porch.

History

The church at Penhow was erected at the end of the twelfth or early thirteenth century on the initiative of the De Maurs family, who also built a nearby castle. The church originally consisted of a rectangular, elongated nave, to which in the 13th century, a quadrilateral but shorter chancel was added on the eastern side.

In the latter part of the 13th century, a low, four-sided tower was erected, on the south side and then a side aisle was located on its two sides. It was opened onto the nave with two arcades based on round pillars on each side of the tower and a pointed arcade in the ground floor of the tower. In the 15th century, a porch was added to it from the south.

Currently, the north and west walls of the oldest church from the 12th century have survived and fragments of the south wall from which inter-nave pillars and arcades were created in the 13th century. The southern porch is 15th century, while the chancel was thoroughly rebuilt during the building of the early modern sacristy (although a double piscina from the 13th century and a 14th-century decorative recess in the north wall have been preserved). The windows of the church were replaced at the beginning of the 20th century.