IChurch · listed 1954Church of St MaryPhoto: Alf Beard · CC BY-SA 2.0
The Greyhound · Photo: David Medcalf · CC BY-SA 2.0BHistory Grade
History of Lydney · Historic England
52 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Lydney’s built-up area, 54 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings and 6 old views of the town. 11% of its homes were built before 1919. Lydney grades B for history: #23 of 48 in Gloucestershire.
Listed buildings
52
54 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
3
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
1
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
11%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Lydney in 12 photos and old views
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed, and the town before 1950. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Church of St MaryGrade I listed
Market CrossGrade II listed
Althorpe HouseGrade II listed
Pedestrian Bridge over Disused Rail Line, About 75 Metres East of Church of St MaryGrade II listed
Baptist ChapelGrade II listed+7See all photosPhotos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.
Through time
Lydney from 1890 to 1912
6 old photos and postcards, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.
c. 1890
c. 1890
1905
1905
1905
c. 1912Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.
The map
Where Lydney’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade IGrade II*Scheduled monument
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
0 of 6neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 38% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
52 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I3 Grade II*48 Grade II
Historic England lists buildings in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest (about 2.5% of all listed buildings), Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest (about 5.8%), and Grade II for buildings of special interest (about 91.7%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.
Every entry on the National Heritage List for England whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Lydney
Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Grade II*
The 3 Grade II* listed buildings in Lydney
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest.
Walls & gates · listed 1988Unidentified Monument in the Churchyard About 12 Metres North of Nave North Wall of the Church of St Mary
What’s protected
Most of Lydney’s listed buildings are churches and chapels
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Churches, chapels & priories35
Walls, gates & bridges10
Houses, terraces & villas6
Public & civic buildings1
6 entries (12%) are houses, terraces and villas. 35 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings.
Buildings are sorted by words in each entry’s name (church, gate, inn, memorial…): the list’s open data has no building type. An entry named only by its address counts as a house.
Grade II
48 Grade II listed buildings
Most listed buildings are in this grade, which covers buildings of special interest. Open any building to read its official list entry.
All 48 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Althorpe HouseBaptist ChapelGates, Gate Piers and Boundary Walls to RectoryHighburyHighfieldMarket CrossMonument to - Taylor in the Churchyard About 17 Metres South of the South West Corner of the South Aisle of the Church of St MaryMonument to --- Haddock in the Churchyard About 4 Metres South East of South East Corner of the Vestry to the Church of St MaryMonument to --- Matthews in the Churchyard About 8 Metres North of Corner of North Aisle Chapel of Church of St MaryMonument to --- Morse in the Churchyard About 9 Metres South of the South East Corner of the Choir Vestry of the Church of St MaryMonument to --- Phillips in the Churchyard Circa 13 Metres South of the South Window in the Chancel of the Church of St MaryMonument to --- Terrett in the Churchyard About 2 3/4 Metres East of the North East Corner of the Chancel of the Church of St MaryMonument to --- Wife of Henry King in the Churchyard Circa 15 Metres South East of South East Corner of Chancel of the Church of St MaryMonument to Amelia Stock in the Churchyard About 20 Metres North of North East Corner of Aisle Chapel of the Church of St MaryMonument to Charles Cauls in the Churchyard Circa 6 Metres South East of the South East Corner of the South Aisle to the Church of St MaryMonument to Elizabeth Inman in the Churchyard About 6 Metres North of North West Buttress of Tower of Church of St MaryMonument to James Wade in the Churchyard About 3 1/2 Metres South of South Window in Chancel of Church of St MaryMonument to John Bowyer in the Churchyard Circa 12 Metres South of the Tower of the Church of St MaryMonument to John Morse in the Churchyard Circa 10 Metres South of South Window in Chancel of Church of St MaryMonument to John Morse in the Churchyard Circa 10 Metres South of the Choir Vestry of the Church of St MaryMonument to Joseph (?) Tamplin in the Churchyard Circa 16 1/2 Metres North East of North East Corner of Chancel of Church of St MaryMonument to Joseph Tamplin in the Churchyard About 15 Metres North East of North East Corner of the Chancel of the Church of St MaryMonument to Martin Inman in the Churchyard Circa 3 Metres West of North West Buttress of Tower of Church of St MaryMonument to Mary Hook in the Churchyard About 1 Metre South of the South East Corner of the Choir Vestry of the Church of St MaryMonument to Matthew Williams and Family in the Churchyard About 1 Metre South East of the South Window in the Chancel of the Church of St MaryMonument to Morfe Family in the Churchyard About 6 Metres North of Nave North Wall of the Church of St MaryMonument to Richard Gill in the Churchyard Circa 3 Metres South of the South East Corner of the South Aisle to the Church of St MaryMonument to Samuel Fores or Fords in the Churchyard and 3 1/2 Metres North of Nave North Wall of the Church of St MaryMonument to Thomas Buck in the Churchyard Circa 5 Metres South of the Tower of the Church of St MaryMonument to Thomas Powell in the Churchyard Circa 1 Metre South East Corner of the Vestry of the Church of St MaryMonument to Thomas Stephens in the Churchyard Circa 7 Metres South of the Tower of the Church of St MaryMonument to Thomas Williams in the Churchyard About 71 Metres North of Aisle Chapel of the Church of St MaryMonument to William Boughten in the Churchyard About 18 Metres South East of South East Corner of Chancel of Church of St MaryMonument to William Huntley in the Churchyard About 3 Metres North West of North West Buttress of Nave of Church of St MaryMonument to William Williams in the Churchyard About 18 1/2 Metres North of Aisle Chapel of the Church of St MaryPedestrian Bridge over Disused Rail Line, About 75 Metres East of Church of St MaryRectoryThe GreyhoundThe Rocklands and Attached Garage with Courtyard WallUnidentified Monument in the Churchyard About 1 1/2 Metres East of the East Wall of the Chancel of the Church of St MaryUnidentified Monument in the Churchyard About 1 1/2 Metres South West of South Window in Chancel of Church of St MaryUnidentified Monument in the Churchyard About 11 Metres North of North East Corner of Aisle Chapel of the Church of St MaryUnidentified Monument in the Churchyard About 13 Metres South East of the South East Corner of the South Aisle to the Church of St MaryUnidentified Monument in the Churchyard About 20 Metres South of the Tower of the Church of St MaryUnidentified Monument in the Churchyard About 3 Metres East of East Wall of the Chancel of the Church of St MaryUnidentified Monument in the Churchyard About 3 Metres East of East Wall of the Chancel of the Church of St MaryUnidentified Monument in the Churchyard Circa 3 Metres East of the East Wall of the Chancel of the Church of St Mary1-9, Cookson Terrace
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 3.9% of Lydney
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Lydney 200515 ha
15 hain conservation areas, of 374 ha inside the built-up area.
47 of the 52 listed buildings stand in one.
Historic England’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.
How the list grew
More than half of Lydney’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1988
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1988 · 51
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The first 1 entry was listed in 1954, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 51 came in 1988, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Monuments & landscapes
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
1 scheduled monument
Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.
History Grade
Lydney grades B for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (59 points, 61 per 10,000 residents)More than 68% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (11%)More than 30% of UK towns
Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.
Towns its size
Lydney has the 97th most Grade I buildings of 688 towns its size
Places of 6,000–15,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Lydney1
#200 of 688for listed buildings per resident (54 per 10,000). Brecon, Malmesbury and Ludlow lead.
96 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Lydney
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lydney | 9,655 | 52 | 1 | B |
| Yorkley and Whitecroft | 2,678 | 0 | 0 | C− |
| Bream | 3,117 | 2 | 0 | C |
| Sharpness | 1,237 | 3 | 0 | B− |
| Blakeney | 1,303 | 44 | 0 | A+ |
| Berkeley | 2,250 | 129 | 4 | A |
| Ruspidge | 2,431 | 1 | 0 | C |
| Broadwell and Coalway | 3,304 | 1 | 0 | D |
In brief
Lydney in brief
The official list counts 52 listed buildings in Lydney, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Mary. Only 96 of the 688 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 2005.
Of the whole list, 67% are churches, chapels and priories. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1988: 51 of 52. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; Lionel Beaumont Thomas (1893) was born here before 1900; and it also has a scheduled monument.
Questions about Lydney’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Lydney?
Historic England lists 52 buildings inside Lydney’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 3 Grade II* and 48 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Lydney?
One: Church of St Mary.
Are there scheduled monuments in Lydney?
Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Village cross at Lydney.
How many conservation areas are there in Lydney?
1, covering about 15 hectares of the town. The largest is Lydney.
When were Lydney’s buildings listed?
The first in 1954; the most, 51, in 1988.
Are there old photos of Lydney?
Yes: 6 public-domain photos and postcards from 1890 to 1912, all on this page.
How old are the homes in Lydney?
11% of homes were built before 1919 and 20% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The National Heritage List for England is the official, up-to-date register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England; check an entry on Historic England’s website before relying on it.
Sources: Historic England, National Heritage List for England (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only · Historic England conservation areas (supplied by local planning authorities; October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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