Great Witley

[4] The village is home to Witley Court, a Jacobean country house extended on a number of occasions throughout its history, but which became derelict after a spectacular fire in 1937.

[5] The church, of Saint Michael and All Angels, is a brick building but like the adjoining Witley Court was faced with bath stone by the Gloucester architect Samuel Daukes in the 1850s.

The interior is one of the finest Italian Baroque churches in Britain originally from Cannons House at Edgware in Middlesex and fitted to Daukes's building by James Gibbs.

[7][8][9] Beneath the church is the burial vault of the owners of Witley Court, where – among many others – William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, is buried in a splendid marble sarcophagus.

[10] The village is home to the Grade II listed coaching inn The Hundred House Hotel,[12] once the collection point for agricultural tithes from the districts or 'hundred (division)s' of the local area.

Interior of Great Witley Church