Find a church

A beautiful ancient church set in a large rural churchyard, an ideal place for quiet meditation.

John Betjeman, observed that ‘within and without, the church has the charm of old watercolours’.

This small and simple Grade I church has a Norman south doorway and an Early English chancel and bellcote.

The parish church of St Mary's lies at the centre of the village where it has stood on its present site for over eight hundred years.

The Grade I church is well grouped with the Tudor manor.

The combination of church and cottages here is rural England at its most appealing.

A tiny Norman church nestled in the beautiful Swainswick and Woolley valley where the Battle of Lansdown was fought in 1643, it is even mentioned in the Domesday Book.

St Cuthbert’s is one of Thetford’s most widely recognised and best preserved buildings.

1811 Independent Chapel, built to replace an earlier Meeting House for a congregation founded in 1665 with fine Victorian interior including pews, pulpit and screen.

Coming into Saffron Walden from the west, St Mary's appears over ancient roofs in much the same way that it has for hundreds of years and the immediate approach to the church takes you through the unspoiled heart of the town. Photo credit: John Fielding CC-BY 2.0

Rural baptist church.