Heritage sites in POLSTEAD PARISH

English Heritage sites near Polstead Parish

LINDSEY ST JAMES'S CHAPEL

3 miles from Polstead Parish

A pretty thatched 13th century chapel with lancet windows.

LEXDEN EARTHWORKS AND BLUEBOTTLE GROVE

8 miles from Polstead Parish

The banks and ditches of a series of late Iron Age defences protecting the western side of Camulodunum – pre-Roman Colchester.

COLCHESTER, ST BOTOLPH'S PRIORY

9 miles from Polstead Parish

The remains of one of the first Augustinian priories in England, founded in c.1100 and an impressive example of early Norman architecture.

ST JOHN'S ABBEY GATE

9 miles from Polstead Parish

This pinnacled gatehouse, elaborately decorated in East Anglian 'flushwork', is the sole survivor of the wealthy Benedictine abbey of St John.

MISTLEY TOWERS

9 miles from Polstead Parish

Two porticoed Classical towers, which stood at each end of a grandiose but highly unconventional Georgian church, designed by Robert Adam in 1776.

BURY ST EDMUNDS ABBEY

17 miles from Polstead Parish

The extensive remains of one of the wealthiest and most powerful Benedictine monasteries in England, shrine of St Edmund.

Churches in Polstead Parish

Polstead, St Mary

Polstead Colchester
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Polstead- a place of pools. St Marys is a delightful church dating originally from 1160 but with major alterations in the 1400's and 1500's. Still retaining some Norman clerestory windows, its stone spire is the only remaining one of its kind in Suffolk. The interior has rare Norman brick arches and much reused Roman material.There is a 13th. century font and a 16th. century remnant of painted oak roof. The church has glorious views and is located up a steep slope 'road' adjacent to the roadside bottom of The Pool with rough ground parking at top below wall.

St Mary's is part of the Benefice of Stoke-by-Nayland with Leavenheath and Polstead, and Nayland with Wissington; part of the Hadleigh Deanery.