English Heritage sites near Sudeley Parish
BELAS KNAP LONG BARROW
1 miles from Sudeley Parish
A particularly fine example of a Neolithic long barrow of c.3800 BC, featuring a false entrance and side chambers. During excavations in the 1860s, the remains of 31 people were found in the chambers.
HAILES ABBEY
3 miles from Sudeley Parish
Founded by the Earl of Cornwall in thanks for surviving a shipwreck. It housed a renowned relic, ‘the Holy Blood of Hailes’: allegedly a phial of Christ’s blood. Great picnic spot. Audio tours.
ODDA'S CHAPEL
11 miles from Sudeley Parish
One of the most complete surviving Saxon churches in England, this chapel was built in 1056 by Earl Odda, and rediscovered in 1865 subsumed into a farmhouse. Nearby is the famous Saxon parish church.
GREAT WITCOMBE ROMAN VILLA
11 miles from Sudeley Parish
The remains of a large and luxurious villa built about AD 250, with a bathhouse complex, perhaps the shrine of a water spirit, and mosaics.
GREYFRIARS
13 miles from Sudeley Parish
Substantial remains of an early Tudor friary church of Franciscan 'grey friars' founded in 1231.
BLACKFRIARS
13 miles from Sudeley Parish
One of the most complete surviving Dominican friaries in England, later converted into a Tudor house and cloth factory. Notable features include the church and fine scissor-braced dormitory roof.
Churches in Sudeley Parish
St Martin
Charlton Abbots
(01242) 820404
http://www.colnriver.org.uk
For further details contact:
Church Office, Station Road, Andoversford, GL54 4LA
Tel: 01242 820404
For a full list of services this month please check our website:-
http://www.colnriver.org.uk/
St Mary's Church, Sudeley
No churches found in Sudeley Parish