English Heritage sites near Wakes Colne Parish
LEXDEN EARTHWORKS AND BLUEBOTTLE GROVE
5 miles from Wakes Colne Parish
The banks and ditches of a series of late Iron Age defences protecting the western side of Camulodunum – pre-Roman Colchester.
ST JOHN'S ABBEY GATE
7 miles from Wakes Colne Parish
This pinnacled gatehouse, elaborately decorated in East Anglian 'flushwork', is the sole survivor of the wealthy Benedictine abbey of St John.
COLCHESTER, ST BOTOLPH'S PRIORY
7 miles from Wakes Colne Parish
The remains of one of the first Augustinian priories in England, founded in c.1100 and an impressive example of early Norman architecture.
LINDSEY ST JAMES'S CHAPEL
10 miles from Wakes Colne Parish
A pretty thatched 13th century chapel with lancet windows.
MISTLEY TOWERS
14 miles from Wakes Colne 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
22 miles from Wakes Colne Parish
The extensive remains of one of the wealthiest and most powerful Benedictine monasteries in England, shrine of St Edmund.
Churches in Wakes Colne Parish
Wakes Colne: All Saints
Wakes Street
Wakes Colne
Colchester
01206 215772
The Parish of Wakes Colne and Chappel and its two churches, St Barnabas, Chappel and All Saints Wakes Colne, forms part of a benefice with local churches St Barnabas Great Tey and St James the Less, Little Tey. Our parish is in the Hinckford and Halstead Deanery in the diocese of Chelmsford.
Our Churches and parish are led by the Revd Ian Scott-Thompson and administered by our Parochial Church Council (PCC).
Pubs in Wakes Colne Parish
Chappel Beer Festival
Station Road, Chappel, CO6 2DS
(01206) 242524
chappelbeerfestival.org.uk