English Heritage sites near Denham Parish
MOULTON PACKHORSE BRIDGE
4 miles from Denham Parish
A pretty four-arched late medieval bridge, spanning the River Kennett on the old route from Cambridge to Bury St Edmunds.
BURY ST EDMUNDS ABBEY
7 miles from Denham Parish
The extensive remains of one of the wealthiest and most powerful Benedictine monasteries in England, shrine of St Edmund.
ISLEHAM PRIORY CHURCH
10 miles from Denham Parish
Isleham Priory Church is the best example in England of a small Norman Benedictine priory church, surviving in a surprisingly unaltered state despite later conversion into a barn.
THETFORD WARREN LODGE
15 miles from Denham Parish
Thetford Warren Lodge was probably built c.1400 by the Prior of Thetford; this defensible lodge protected gamekeepers and hunting parties against armed poachers.
THETFORD, CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE
15 miles from Denham Parish
The only surviving remains in England of a priory of Canons of the Holy Sepulchre, who aided pilgrims to Christ's tomb: the ruined nave of their 14th-century church, later used as a barn.
THETFORD PRIORY
15 miles from Denham Parish
The extensive remains of one of the most important East Anglian monasteries, the Cluniac Priory of Our Lady of Thetford and the burial place of the earls and dukes of Norfolk for 400 years.
Churches in Denham Parish
St Mary
Denham
Bury St Edmunds
01284810866
http://www.barrowbenefice.org.uk/
St Mary’s is at the centre of Denham and is the only communal building in the village. There are services every Sunday, alternating between Morning Prayer and BCP Holy Communion.
The historic church has two exceptional monuments:
a canopied monument to the Lewkenor family a triumph of Jacobean taste, and an austere classical marble effigy of the last Sir Edward Lewkenor.The church hosts a benefice patronal service to celebrate the feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary in August and Evensong for Harvest. On Remembrance Sunday the names of those commemorated on the war memorial are read during the service.
No churches found in Denham Parish