English Heritage sites near Great Yeldham Parish

Prior's Hall Barn

PRIOR'S HALL BARN

14 miles from Great Yeldham Parish

One of the finest surviving medieval barns in eastern England, tree-ring dated to the mid-15th century, with a breathtaking aisled interior and crown post roof, the product of some 400 oaks.

Lindsey St James's Chapel

LINDSEY ST JAMES'S CHAPEL

14 miles from Great Yeldham Parish

A pretty thatched 13th century chapel with lancet windows.

Audley End House and Gardens

AUDLEY END HOUSE AND GARDENS

14 miles from Great Yeldham Parish

One of England's finest country houses, Audley End is also a mansion with a difference. Enjoy a great day out.

Lexden Earthworks and Bluebottle Grove

LEXDEN EARTHWORKS AND BLUEBOTTLE GROVE

15 miles from Great Yeldham 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

ST JOHN'S ABBEY GATE

17 miles from Great Yeldham Parish

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

Moulton Packhorse Bridge

MOULTON PACKHORSE BRIDGE

17 miles from Great Yeldham Parish

A pretty four-arched late medieval bridge, spanning the River Kennett on the old route from Cambridge to Bury St Edmunds.

Churches in Great Yeldham Parish

Great Yeldham: St Andrew

Church Road Great Yeldham HALSTEAD
01787 237 211
https://www.hedingham.info/

History

Taken, with kind permission, from A Select Guide to Essex Churches And Chapels by members of the Friends of Essex Churches. Edited by Canon John Fitch.

“The church forms an attractive group with the Hall and the old rectory, overlooking to busy A1017 and the spreading village.

Its most impressive feature is its handsome late fifteenth-century west tower. Built in a pleasing misture of rubble, brick and puddingstone with freestone dressings, it has three-light transomed bell openings, a projecting staircase, and a stone parapet with stepped battlements, pinnacles and intermediate figures of angels, and house six bells. This ambitious structure, seen to best advantage from due south, dominates the unpretentious church beneath it. It had evidently been the earlier intention, perhaps due to the awkward lie of the land, to build an equally large tower to serve as an entrance porch, on the south side of the nave, after the fashion of several Suffolk churches around Ipswich. When this was abandoned in favour of a west tower, the unfinished south tower became the porch with a room above it, now the choir vestry, and was completed with a Tudor brick stepped gable.”

Pubs in Great Yeldham Parish

Three Bottles

6 Leather Lane, Great Yeldham, CO9 4HY
(01787) 237122

Covid-19 update (24 Mar 2020): currently closed. A freehouse now serving cask ales under pressure on false handpumps. This used to be a tied house. There is a pleasant small garden and the pub runs events mainly on Saturdays.
Waggon & Horses

High Street, Great Yeldham, CO9 4EX
(01787) 237936

The family has been running this 16th Century traditional pub with accommodation for many years. The bars are comfortable and the place very welcoming. Food is available during opening hours except for Mondays. The pub also features a Steak...
White Hart

Poole Street, Great Yeldham, CO9 4HJ
(01787) 237250
whitehartweddingvenue.co.uk

A medieval hotel with 13 luxury rooms built in 1504. It has a separate venue in the extensive gardens for weddings or similar events offering a lot of character. This can make the place very busy and potentially the car park may become full...