English Heritage sites near Leavenheath Parish
LINDSEY ST JAMES'S CHAPEL
5 miles from Leavenheath Parish
A pretty thatched 13th century chapel with lancet windows.
LEXDEN EARTHWORKS AND BLUEBOTTLE GROVE
7 miles from Leavenheath 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
8 miles from Leavenheath 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
8 miles from Leavenheath Parish
This pinnacled gatehouse, elaborately decorated in East Anglian 'flushwork', is the sole survivor of the wealthy Benedictine abbey of St John.
MISTLEY TOWERS
11 miles from Leavenheath 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
18 miles from Leavenheath Parish
The extensive remains of one of the wealthiest and most powerful Benedictine monasteries in England, shrine of St Edmund.
Churches in Leavenheath Parish
Leavenheath, St Matthew
Nayland Road
Leavenheath
Colchester
01206262453
https://naylandchurches.wordpress.com/
This warm friendly well cared for small Victorian church lying in a tree lined hollow, sign posted off the A134 at the northern end of the village. It contains a unique set of First World War white grave crosses and associated photographs. Originally a Victorian Chapel of Ease for St Mary's, Stoke by Nayland, St. Matthew's, Leavenheath is now a Parish in its own right. Parking esp. for disabled down church drive, otherwise on grass verge alonside main road .
St Matthew's is part of the Benefice of Stoke-by-Nayland with Leavenheath and Polstead, and Nayland with Wissington; part of the Hadleigh Deanery.
Pubs in Leavenheath Parish
Hare & Hounds
Harrow St (A134), Leavenheath, CO6 4PW
(01787) 212396
hareandhoundsleavenheath.co.uk/