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south aisle are in good preservation, and near them is a curious 
brass. There are numerous noteworthy tombstones in the Church. 
The style of the Church is mainly Transition Decorated to 
Perpendicular, and there is evidence that the present are not the 
original roofs. The south aisle has a double set of corbel tables, 
and the masonry over the tower arch shows traces of an earlier 
nave. In the churchyard, which is a large one, the monument of 
Jenkyn Wyrall is conspicuous. It is an altar tomb supporting full 
length figures of a forester and his wife, unfortunately a good deal 
mutilated. The inscription runs :—“ Here: lythe : Ion: Wyrale : 
Forster: of Fee: the whych: dysesyd: on: the: viij: day: of 
September : in: y®: yeare: of oure: Lorde: MCCCCLVII: on: 
hys: Soule God: have mercy: Amen.” This Wyrale, or Wyrrall, 
was, it is said, bow-bearer to King Henry VI. It is believed that 
the family is extinct. In another part of the churchyard is an 
incised slab representing a forester armed with his bow, &c. 
Newland is the Church of the Forest. The parish was formed 
in the reign of Edward I., who gave the advowson to the Bishop 
of Llandaff. But there was evidently a Church somewhere in 
this locality at an earlier date, for in 1219 Henry III. gave the 
parson of Welinton, in the Forest of Dean, some land near the 
Church, and deeds of 1220 and 1222-3 show that this Church 
was a new one. But the Church, the Manse and even the name 
of Welintun have utterly disappeared. 
From Newland the drive was continued through Clearwell, 
where a halt was made that the Cross, a restoration in part of an 
old one, might be photographed. Clearwell Park, once the 
property of the Wyndhams, now in possession of the Earls of 
Dunraven, was passed, and Parkend Station was duly reached. 
Some surprise has been expressed at the smallness of the 
greater number of the trees in the forest. But Sir John Wyntour, 
or Winter, seems to have felled upwards of 30,000 trees in the 
time of the Civil War, which accounts for the greater part of the 
forest. 
