The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Ethelbert (Not confirmed)
Parish church, formerly chapel
Littledean is a small village within the Hundred of St, Briavels in the Forest of Dean and lies 17km WSW of Gloucester.
The church is entered through the West porch into a clerestoried nave with a north aisle. This was added in 1400 and consisits of a four bay arcade with octagonal piers and double chamfered arches. There is a S porch now used as a vestry. The chancel and arch were rebuilt in the 14thc. The arch retains its late Romanesque semi-circular imposts and the S wall of the nave is also said to date from this period. There is a N chapel off the chancel with a two bay arcade similar to the one in the nave. In the S wall of the chancel there is a blocked door way and in the SE corner rood stairs.
The church is built of coursed rubble and there is a W tower with diagonal butresses. It has the remains of a spire which was taken down in 1894 due to storm damage.