English Heritage sites near Suffield Parish
BACONSTHORPE CASTLE
8 miles from Suffield Parish
Visit the extensive ruins of Baconsthorpe Castle, a moated and fortified 15th century manor house, that are a testament to the rise and fall of a prominent Norfolk family, the Heydons.
COW TOWER, NORWICH
14 miles from Suffield Parish
One of the earliest purpose-built artillery blockhouses in England, this brick tower was built in c.1398-9 to command a strategic point in Norwich’s city defence.
BLAKENEY GUILDHALL
15 miles from Suffield Parish
The remains of the house of a prosperous Blakeney merchant, with a fine 15th century brick-vaulted undercroft. Later the guildhall of Blakeney’s guild of fish merchants.
NORTH ELMHAM CHAPEL
16 miles from Suffield Parish
A place with an unusual story, told by graphic panels. The small Norman chapel here stood on the site of an earlier timber church, probably the Saxon cathedral of East Anglia.
BINHAM MARKET CROSS
16 miles from Suffield Parish
The tall shaft of a 15th century cross, on the site of an annual fair held from the 1100s until the 1950s.
BINHAM PRIORY
17 miles from Suffield Parish
Among the most complete and impressive monastic ruins in Norfolk of a Benedictine priory with a well-documented history.
Churches in Suffield Parish
Suffield: St Margaret
Suffield Common
Suffield
Norwich
01692 773886
St Margaret of Antioch is part of the United Benefice of King's Beck, together with the villages of Banningham, Colby, Felmingham, Skeyton and Tuttington. Sung Eucharist is held every Sunday at 10am in rotation around the villages, with Evening Prayer at 5pm at Felmingham on Tuesday and Banningham on Thursday.
The church boasts a chancel dating from the second half of the 13th cent. and a 15th cent. tower. Of particular note is the rood screen from 1534, which has superb carvings of animals and painted dado panels.
from June 2018, the church building is in the care of the Norwich Diocesan Churches Trust. There are no regular Sunday Services in this church but it remains available for weddings and funerals by arrangement with the Rector.
No churches found in Suffield Parish