15th CENTURY.

In 1414, when Henry the Fifth dissolved the alien priories, he granted Newchurch to the Abbey of Beauilieu in Hampshire, thus closing its 333 years connection with the Abbey of Lyra in distant Normandy. Within a very short time the monks of Beaulieu took possession of the Parish and began to alter the church.

The monks widened and rebuilt the nave. They also erected a rood screen surmounted by the usual rood loft cutting a way to it through the massive southern tier — evidence of which risky undertaking still remains. In the very early days of Queen Victoria's reign, however, both the screen and the rood loft were removed. It has also been suggested, that they built a stone tower above the south porch, had they put it at the west end, it would have been  dangerously near the Shute.

16th CENTURY.

	On the dissolution of the monasteries in 1537,  Newchurch was taken away from the Abbey of Beaulieu and taken over by the Crown. Henry VIII then bestowed it on his newly founded Bishopric of Bristol, subsequently to be merged into Gloucester. During the reign of Henry VIII, when the nation was passing through the great religious crisis which succeeded the Reformation, the south and east walls of the Chancel were rebuilt and some alterations were made to the south transept.
	To this Century also belongs the oldest of the present peal of six bells—being cast in 1589, the year after the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
	In the reign of Queen Elizabeth the First the stone altar was probably replaced by the rare and beautiful oak alter-table, carved with the growing vine, which later served as a credence table in the sanctuary. A few years before the Second German War the table was senselessly destroyed as worm eaten.

17th CENTURY.

	The Dillington family bought Knighton Gorges in the 16th century. Robert Dillington was created a baronet in 1628 and it is thought probable that he gave to Newchurch Church the very fine Jacobean chalice and cover which remains one of the church's most important possessions.
	Sir Robert died in 1687, and in the following year his eldest son, another Robert, built a vault in a vacant space in the north transept.                                                         It was then that the transept was reconstructed as a mortuary chapel for the Dillington family.
	Probably in the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell (1649-1660) the church was completely lime washed and plastered thus covering over the polychroming (mural painting) of the monks of Beaulieu. When this white covering was finally scoured off in 1843, the painting had faded beyond recognition.