English Heritage sites near Stoke-by-Nayland Parish
LINDSEY ST JAMES'S CHAPEL
5 miles from Stoke-by-Nayland Parish
A pretty thatched 13th century chapel with lancet windows.
LEXDEN EARTHWORKS AND BLUEBOTTLE GROVE
6 miles from Stoke-by-Nayland 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
7 miles from Stoke-by-Nayland 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
7 miles from Stoke-by-Nayland Parish
This pinnacled gatehouse, elaborately decorated in East Anglian 'flushwork', is the sole survivor of the wealthy Benedictine abbey of St John.
MISTLEY TOWERS
8 miles from Stoke-by-Nayland Parish
Two porticoed Classical towers, which stood at each end of a grandiose but highly unconventional Georgian church, designed by Robert Adam in 1776.
LANDGUARD FORT
18 miles from Stoke-by-Nayland Parish
Landguard Fort is the site of the last opposed seaborne invasion of England in 1667 and the first land battle of the Royal Marines.
Churches in Stoke-by-Nayland Parish
Stoke-by-Nayland, St Mary
Church Street
Stoke-by-Nayland
Colchester
01787210834
https://naylandchurches.wordpress.com/
One of the largest and finest churches in Suffolk, with a history stretching back to the 10th century, but refashioned in the Perpendicular style by the Howards, Dukes of Norfolk, in the late 1400s. Its tower dominates the landscape of Dedham Vale, and can be seen for miles around. Its outstanding treasure is the 15th century carved oak doors in the south porch, unique in Suffolk, but the font is very fine, and no less a person than the artist John Constable has said that "the lofty and slender proportions of the tower arch are the crowning beauty of the whole interior." The brass of Sir William de Tendring (d.1408) is held to be one of the first portrait brasses, and there are two major 17th century memorials, to Lady Anne Windsor and Sir Francis Mannock.
For lots of pictures see http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/stoken.htm
St Mary'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 Stoke-by-Nayland Parish
Angel
Polstead St, Stoke by Nayland, CO6 4SA
(01206) 263245
angelinnsuffolk.co.uk/
Black Horse
Pretty two bar pub that was located close to old quoit pitches that is now converted back to residential use. Was historically in Polstead, but transferred into Stoke by Nayland due to boundary changes, probably in 1935 but possibly in 1884...
Crown
Park St, Stoke by Nayland, CO6 4SE
(01206) 262001
crowninn.net/
Rose
Now residential. Used to be a cosy 2 bar pub - one room very small with a dart board & the other long & narrow with low beamed ceilings & food often available. Pub sign still hanging in 2007. NB pub is sometimes listed as being in Stoke By...