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St Mark’s lies within the Englefield Estate and its history is intertwined with neighbouring Englefield House, it sits in a beautiful rural location, within the walled village, next to the deer park.

The Christian community has worshipped continuously on the site occupied by the church for well over 800 years and the first church may have built here in Saxon times, when Bristol first became a port.

In 1811 the newly erected church could somehow seat 256 people plus 94 other and had a capacity congregation each Sunday.

Bethania chapel was first built in 1832, and has seen numerous rebuilds and enlargements.

A surprisingly bright and spacious church, All Saints was built in 1856 and having from a fire in 1940, was rededicated in the 1952.

This small and simple Grade I church has a Norman south doorway and an Early English chancel and bellcote.

Welsh architect John Humphreys built what is said to be perhaps the most ambitious chapel in Wales in 1870, for the then huge sum of £18,000.