English Heritage sites near Chappel Parish
LEXDEN EARTHWORKS AND BLUEBOTTLE GROVE
5 miles from Chappel 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 Chappel 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 Chappel 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
11 miles from Chappel Parish
A pretty thatched 13th century chapel with lancet windows.
MISTLEY TOWERS
14 miles from Chappel Parish
Two porticoed Classical towers, which stood at each end of a grandiose but highly unconventional Georgian church, designed by Robert Adam in 1776.
PRIOR'S HALL BARN
22 miles from Chappel 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.
Churches in Chappel Parish
Chappel: St Barnabas
The Street
Chappel
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 Chappel Parish
Swan Inn
The Street, Chappel, CO6 2DD
(01787) 222353
swaninn-chappel.com/