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Kempley

Kempley
Kempley Church - geograph.org.uk - 1373625.jpg
St Mary's Church, with the oldest roof of any building in Britain
Kempley is located in Gloucestershire
Kempley
Kempley
Kempley shown within Gloucestershire
Population 280 (2011)
OS grid reference SO671295
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Dymock
Postcode district GL18
Police Gloucestershire
Fire Gloucestershire
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK Parliament
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UK
England
Gloucestershire
51°57′48″N 2°28′48″W / 51.9634°N 2.4801°W / 51.9634; -2.4801Coordinates: 51°57′48″N 2°28′48″W / 51.9634°N 2.4801°W / 51.9634; -2.4801

Kempley is a parish and village in the Forest of Dean district of Gloucestershire, England, close to the border with Herefordshire. It lies 17 miles northwest of Gloucester and 17 miles southeast of Hereford. The nearest market towns of Newent and Ledbury are 5 and 8 miles respectively.

The village maintains the Kempley Tardis (a redundant telephone box) - a National Lottery funded project supported by English Heritage. The project, which is run by the Friends of Kempley Churches, aims to archive and document the entire social, economic and cultural history of the village.

In March 1994 fields near the village were found to contain the remains of two of the victims of serial killer Fred West.

The small parish (280 residents) has two notable churches, one dedicated to St Mary and another to St Edward the Confessor.

St Mary's Church, Kempley has in its chancel "the most complete set of Romanesque frescos in northern Europe", including the Christ in Majesty painting created in about 1120. On the walls of the nave are further images, including a wheel of life, showing the life cycle of man. These are worked in tempera painted on dry lime mortar, unlike those in the chancel which are true frescoes. St Mary's Church is owned by English Heritage and maintained by The Friends of Kempley Churches.(Location: 51°58′43″N 2°28′56″W / 51.9787°N 2.4823°W / 51.9787; -2.4823)


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