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.

The Domesday Book does not mention the village, nor is it included in the 1291 Taxatio. In 1405 it was a chapelry of Newnham. St. Bartholomew's Hospital in Gloucester claimed offerings and tithes which in 1413 were paid to the chaplain by the residents.