Exploring Goodnestone Gardens and Holy Cross Church

Goodnestone garden with the church of the Holy Cross in the background

A large and eminently satisfying village church. The old part – north aisle of fourteenth-century date and tower of the fifteenth century – was enlarged in 1839 by a rebuilt nave and chancel. The architects were Rickman and Hussey, pioneers of the nineteenth-century Gothic Revival. In the north aisle is the monument by Scheemakers to Sir Brook Bridges (d. 1717) who built Goodnestone Park, the gardens of which abut the churchyard. 

Holy Cross church and Goodnestone gardens

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