English Heritage sites near Drinkstone Parish
BURY ST EDMUNDS ABBEY
6 miles from Drinkstone Parish
The extensive remains of one of the wealthiest and most powerful Benedictine monasteries in England, shrine of St Edmund.
LINDSEY ST JAMES'S CHAPEL
10 miles from Drinkstone Parish
A pretty thatched 13th century chapel with lancet windows.
THETFORD, CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE
15 miles from Drinkstone Parish
The only surviving remains in England of a priory of Canons of the Holy Sepulchre, who aided pilgrims to Christ's tomb: the ruined nave of their 14th-century church, later used as a barn.
THETFORD PRIORY
15 miles from Drinkstone Parish
The extensive remains of one of the most important East Anglian monasteries, the Cluniac Priory of Our Lady of Thetford and the burial place of the earls and dukes of Norfolk for 400 years.
MOULTON PACKHORSE BRIDGE
16 miles from Drinkstone Parish
A pretty four-arched late medieval bridge, spanning the River Kennett on the old route from Cambridge to Bury St Edmunds.
THETFORD WARREN LODGE
16 miles from Drinkstone Parish
Thetford Warren Lodge was probably built c.1400 by the Prior of Thetford; this defensible lodge protected gamekeepers and hunting parties against armed poachers.
Churches in Drinkstone Parish
Drinkstone, All Saints
The Street
Drinkstone
Bury St Edmunds
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All Saints Church is a simple and beautiful medieval village church.
Open the 14th century south door and imagine this door handle turning every day since 1340.
Inside is the Purbeck marble font, re-cut from one predating the 1340 church. Are this and several romanesque carved stones in the arcade bases from the earlier church listed in the Doomsday Book?
View the finely carved rood screen (1460-80), ogee arched, double sided and painted.
The Lavers & Barraud east window is amongst the finest high Victorian stained glass in East Anglia. In the traceries of other windows are rescued pieces of medieval painted glass.
Chancel memorials commemorate the 17th and 18th century Grigby family of Drinkstone Park and others who were killed by gunshot or drowned at sea.
The fine carving of iconic animals and figures on the wooden pews are the work of Thomas Wormald of Bury St Edmunds. The associations of the church go back to the famous Norman Louvaine, Bohun and Burchier 14th and 15th century families.
Welcome to this beautiful light and airy church.
It is wheelchair friendly and has a hearing loop.
There is a service or activity in the church nearly every Sunday and Morning Prayer takes place on Wednesday and Friday mornings, at 9:00 am.
No churches found in Drinkstone Parish