Editing Pembridge (section)

===Parish church===
{{main|St Mary's Church, Pembridge}}
[[File:Pembridge Church and Belfry - geograph.org.uk - 2438.jpg|thumb|left|St Mary's parish church and (left) pyramidal belltower]]
The chancel is the oldest surviving part of St Mary's [[Church of England parish church]], dating from the 13th-century, although a loose Romanesque pillar piscina remains from the Norman church. Blocked arches on both sides of the chancel mark the entrances to former chapels. The splendid [[Baptismal font|font]] also dates from the 13th-century. The major rebuilding of the church in a mature Decorated style has been dated c1320-30.  The noble nave arcade is of six bays, with circular ogeed cinquefoiled [[clerestory windows]] above. The church has a [[Cruciform#Cruciform architectural plan|cruciform]] plan with 14th-century [[transept]]s and a vaulted north porch.  There is a [[rood stair turret]] entered from the South transept and topped externally with a pinnacle. The West door and the North door date from the 14th century and both retain original ironwork.

The [[pulpit]] preacher's desk, lectern and communion rail are Jacobean.  A north [[vestry]] was added in the 19th century, and the building was restored in 1871 by William Chick and in 1903–09 by Roland W. Paul. The church is a [[Listed building#Categories of listed building|Grade I listed building]].<ref>{{NHLE |num=1081754 |desc=Church of St Mary |grade=I |accessdate=29 December 2015}}</ref> On the North side of the chancel a pair of 14th century tomb chests, one with contemporary effigies of a knight and his wife, the other with a civilian and his wife. They date from 1360 to 1380 and depict Nicholas Gour, a Sergeant-at-law with his wife and his son, John Gour and his wife, a steward in the employ of the Mortimer family. There are also several memorial tablets, including three of the 17th century to the Sherborne family, and one to Thomas Trafford (d.1685).<ref>Brooks, Alan and Pevsner, Nikolaus The Buildings of England, Herefordshire, New Haven and London, 2012, p541-2</ref>

====Belltower====
Pembridge is one of several Herefordshire parishes whose belltower stands separate from the church. All but the base of the tower is timber-framed: one of a number of partly or largely timber-framed belltowers in Herefordshire. The tower was built early in the 13th century, rebuilt with the addition of an [[ambulatory]] in the 15th or 16th century, and further remodelled in the 17th-century when its spire was added. It is a Grade I listed building.<ref>{{NHLE |num=1301249 |desc=Belfry approximately 5 metres north-east of the Church of St Mary |grade=I |accessdate=29 December 2015}}</ref>

The tower has a [[Change ringing|ring]] of five bells. John I Martin of [[Worcester, England|Worcester]] cast the fourth bell in 1658. Abraham II [[Rudhall of Gloucester]] cast the treble bell in 1735. James Barwell of [[Birmingham]] cast or recast the first, second and tenor bells in 1898. St Mary's has also a [[Church bell#Sanctus bells|Sanctus bell]], which was cast about 1800.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=Pembridge&Submit=+Go+&DoveID=PEMBRIDGE |title=Pembridge S Mary V |last=Dawson |first=George |date=31 August 2011 |work=[[Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers]] |publisher=[[Central Council for Church Bell Ringers]] |access-date=29 December 2015}}</ref>

The churchyard contains seven [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission|Commonwealth war graves]] of service personnel, two from [[World War I]] and five from [[World War II]].<ref>[http://www.cwgc.org/39346/PEMBRIDGE%20(ST.%20MARY)%20CHURCHYARD] CWGC cemetery report, details from casualty record.</ref>