English Heritage sites near Great Tey Parish
LEXDEN EARTHWORKS AND BLUEBOTTLE GROVE
6 miles from Great Tey 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
7 miles from Great Tey 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
7 miles from Great Tey Parish
The remains of one of the first Augustinian priories in England, founded in c.1100 and an impressive example of early Norman architecture.
LINDSEY ST JAMES'S CHAPEL
13 miles from Great Tey Parish
A pretty thatched 13th century chapel with lancet windows.
MISTLEY TOWERS
15 miles from Great Tey Parish
Two porticoed Classical towers, which stood at each end of a grandiose but highly unconventional Georgian church, designed by Robert Adam in 1776.
PRIOR'S HALL BARN
22 miles from Great Tey Parish
One of the finest surviving medieval barns in eastern England, tree-ring dated to the mid-15th century, with a breathtaking aisled interior and crown post roof, the product of some 400 oaks.
Churches in Great Tey Parish
Great Tey: St Barnabas
Pubs in Great Tey Parish
Chequers
Kings Arms
Coggeshall Road, Broad Green, CO6 1RU
(01376) 562006
thekingsarmsbroadgreen.co.uk/