English Heritage sites near High Wych Parish
HILL HALL
10 miles from High Wych Parish
This fine Elizabethan mansion features some of the earliest external Renaissance architectural detail in the country.
WALTHAM ABBEY GATEHOUSE AND BRIDGE
11 miles from High Wych Parish
A fine 14th century gatehouse, bridge and other remains of the abbey refounded by Harold, last Saxon King of England.
PRIOR'S HALL BARN
11 miles from High Wych 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.
AUDLEY END HOUSE AND GARDENS
14 miles from High Wych Parish
One of England's finest country houses, Audley End is also a mansion with a difference. Enjoy a great day out.
DUXFORD CHAPEL
20 miles from High Wych Parish
A modest but complete and attractive 14th-century chantry chapel, perhaps originally a hospital.
ROMAN WALL OF ST ALBANS
21 miles from High Wych Parish
A section of the two-mile long wall built between AD 265 and 270 to defend the Roman city of Verulamium: including the foundations of towers and the London Gate.
Churches in High Wych Parish
St James The Great
High Wych Road
High Wych
Sawbridgeworth
01279 790145
http://www.stjameshighwych.org.uk
was designed by C.E. Pritchett and consecrated in
1861. It is situated next to its junior/ infant C of
E school High Wych School which was built at the
same time.
St. James has several interesting features - a round
bell turret with a blue 'Bennet' clock, a richly
decorated apse and a two-manual 'Father Willis'
organ.