English Heritage sites near Little Braxted Parish
LEXDEN EARTHWORKS AND BLUEBOTTLE GROVE
11 miles from Little Braxted 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
12 miles from Little Braxted 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
12 miles from Little Braxted Parish
The remains of one of the first Augustinian priories in England, founded in c.1100 and an impressive example of early Norman architecture.
HADLEIGH CASTLE
17 miles from Little Braxted Parish
The romantic ruins of a royal castle overlooking the Essex marshes. Hadleigh was begun in about 1215 by Hubert de Burgh, but extensively refortified by Edward III during the Hundred Years War.
MISTLEY TOWERS
20 miles from Little Braxted Parish
Two porticoed Classical towers, which stood at each end of a grandiose but highly unconventional Georgian church, designed by Robert Adam in 1776.
LINDSEY ST JAMES'S CHAPEL
21 miles from Little Braxted Parish
A pretty thatched 13th century chapel with lancet windows.
Churches in Little Braxted Parish
Little Braxted: St Nicholas
Little Braxted Lane
Village
Chelmsford
(01621) 892867
http://www.churchinwickhambishops.org.uk
Wickham Bishops forms a United Benefice with the parish of Little Braxted. With only 120 people in the parish it may well be one of the smallest parishes in the country. Little Braxted is a small parish, on the east side of the river Blackwater, one mile east of Witham.
This delightful little church attracts many visitors from all over the world. Fr Ernest Geldart who was priest there 1881-1900 extended, re-ordered and highly decorated the church.
The ancient church of St.Nicholas is situated about one and half miles from the centre of the village. St Nicholas Church, built about 1120, is a small Norman structure, with a wooden belfry and two bells. An old Norman semicircular apsis forms the chancel but the porch is of wood in the Tudor style.
The church has a small, faithful congregation of between 6 and 8 people. However, the visitors book shows that people from as far as Australia & South Africa have visited the church.
Seating a capacity of about 50, at a squeeze, the church can be full at the Midnight service, when the church is lit by over 100 candles. A sight well worth seeing.
We are a small faith community and are committed to maintaining a Christian presence in the village, with a special focus of preserving this very special building for generations to come".
Pubs in Little Braxted Parish
Green Man
Kelvedon Road, Little Braxted, CM8 3LB
(01621) 861659
greenmanlittlebraxted.co.uk