English Heritage sites near Preston St. Mary Parish
LINDSEY ST JAMES'S CHAPEL
5 miles from Preston St. Mary Parish
A pretty thatched 13th century chapel with lancet windows.
BURY ST EDMUNDS ABBEY
10 miles from Preston St. Mary Parish
The extensive remains of one of the wealthiest and most powerful Benedictine monasteries in England, shrine of St Edmund.
LEXDEN EARTHWORKS AND BLUEBOTTLE GROVE
15 miles from Preston St. Mary Parish
The banks and ditches of a series of late Iron Age defences protecting the western side of Camulodunum – pre-Roman Colchester.
MISTLEY TOWERS
16 miles from Preston St. Mary Parish
Two porticoed Classical towers, which stood at each end of a grandiose but highly unconventional Georgian church, designed by Robert Adam in 1776.
COLCHESTER, ST BOTOLPH'S PRIORY
16 miles from Preston St. Mary 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
16 miles from Preston St. Mary Parish
This pinnacled gatehouse, elaborately decorated in East Anglian 'flushwork', is the sole survivor of the wealthy Benedictine abbey of St John.
Churches in Preston St. Mary Parish
Preston, St Mary the Virgin
Pubs in Preston St. Mary Parish
Six Bells
The Street, Preston St Mary, CO10 9NG
(01787) 247440
thesixbellspreston.com/