LYDBROOK HOLY JESUS CHURCH . An Anglican mission was established at Lydbrook bt the Rev. Henry Berkin in 1821. He had first served as curate at Weston-under-Penyard and was largely responsible for the construction of Holy Trinity, Drybrook, only the second church to be built in the Forest in 1817. He built a chapel on the site of the current Vicarage. That chapel, known as "Old School Chapel" and Holy Trinity, Drybrook proved sufficient for some time.

Lydbrook Holy Jesus Church was built ain Upper Lydbrook in 1851 and the ecclesiastical parish of Lydbrook was formed the next year. It is the Decortated Gothic Style, designed buy the eccentric architect Henry Woodyer. The outside was built with local grit stone, while the interior was decorated with Bath Stone. It had a clerestoried nave, a chancel, a tower with a saddle back roof and one bell and a south porch. The church was restored in 1904, but improvements and repaies continued during the twenieth century. A vestry was added in 1912.

The Non-Conformist movement established Wesleyan Methodisim at Lydbrook in 1812, but this took place in a local house registered under Rev. William Woodall, of Monmouth. A Wesleyian chapel was finally built in 1864 in Lower Lydbrook, almost under the viaduct. Its' following had been small, but it continued until 1956 and was demolished in 1966.

The Primitive Methodists likewise used local cottage meetings around the area, until the Ebenezer Chapel was built in Upper Lydbrook. It was the first Methodist chapel in the Forest. It was enlarged in 1852 and again in 1912. However the name'Ebenezer' was dropped because of associations with Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol. It out lasted all the other chapels, but closed in July 1991.

A second Primitive Methodist Chapel 'Mount Tabor' was built in in 1862; it closed in 1960 and subsequently sold for housing.

Following earlier attempts, the Baptists established the Lydbrook Baptist Church in the old Reading Rooms in 1863. This proved successful so land was purchased in Lower Lydbrook in 1864 and the chapel completed in 1875.

There was also a Congregational following at Lydbrook, under Rev. Isaac Bridgeman.

In 1889 the last of seven churches and chapels was built at Lydbrook, this time at Forge Hill. It was the independant Mission Chapel. After considerable success the numbers slowly declined and it closed in 1980.