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St Mary’s church has a rich and long history, being over 850 years old and has been rebuilt and refurbished constantly over the centuries.

St Mary’s church dates from Saxon times, has an exquisite reredos and altar rail, and is one of the 33 Suffolk churches with a round tower.

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

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.

Rural baptist church.

A historic building in the heart of the town with modern adaptations in a sensitive style.

St Nicholas’ church, mainly 15th and 16th century, is possibly on an 8th century site (probably pre-Norman) with a 60ft tower built in the 14th century.

This enchanting little church, stepped down the slope of a Cotswold hillside, is just as ancient as it looks and feels.

Essentially, St Mary's is a building of the 13th century, though the tower and the great arches supporting it are 14th century, inserted into the earlier building.

Fields and trees surround this wonderful ancient church, which seems connected to the East Anglian landscape around it by its walls of flint cobbles and its roof of reed thatch.