English Heritage sites near Little Bardfield Parish
PRIOR'S HALL BARN
7 miles from Little Bardfield 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
9 miles from Little Bardfield Parish
One of England's finest country houses, Audley End is also a mansion with a difference. Enjoy a great day out.
DUXFORD CHAPEL
15 miles from Little Bardfield Parish
A modest but complete and attractive 14th-century chantry chapel, perhaps originally a hospital.
LEXDEN EARTHWORKS AND BLUEBOTTLE GROVE
20 miles from Little Bardfield Parish
The banks and ditches of a series of late Iron Age defences protecting the western side of Camulodunum – pre-Roman Colchester.
MOULTON PACKHORSE BRIDGE
21 miles from Little Bardfield Parish
A pretty four-arched late medieval bridge, spanning the River Kennett on the old route from Cambridge to Bury St Edmunds.
ST JOHN'S ABBEY GATE
22 miles from Little Bardfield Parish
This pinnacled gatehouse, elaborately decorated in East Anglian 'flushwork', is the sole survivor of the wealthy Benedictine abbey of St John.
Churches in Little Bardfield Parish
Little Bardfield: St Katharine
Little Bardfield
Braintree
(01371) 851317
Welcome to St. Katharine’s, Little Bardfield, a jewel of a church in an outstanding rural setting. Prayer and worship were offered here before the Norman Conquest and continue to this day. The Reverend Dr. Robert Beaken is parish priest of St. Katharine's, Little Bardfield and of our sister church, St. Mary's, Great Bardfield.
You are warmly invited to join our services. The Holy Eucharist is celebrated at St. Katharine’s on Sundays at 8.45 am, except on the last Sunday of the month when the Holy Eucharist (1662 BCP) is celebrated at 6.00 pm. On the second Sunday of the month there is, in addition, Evensong (1662 BCP) and Sermon at 3.30 pm. Services are accompanied by the newly-restored 1688 Renatus Harris organ, the most significant historic organ in Essex.
The interior of our church was beautifully restored by Howell and Bellion between 2004 and 2006, substantially to the design and colours of its G. F. Bodley restoration in 1866. It is bright, warm and inviting. Notable features are the altar, tabernacle and reredos, the cross and rood-beam across the fourteenth century chancel arch, the restored war memorial and, dating from 1664, the arms of the Wale family, newly resplendent in red, black and gold. Statues of St. Katharine of Alexandria and the Blessed Virgin Mary have been installed and dedicated in recent years - the latter is a copy of the medieval statue of Our Lady of Grace, originally from Ipswich, which resides in Nettuno, Italy.
Pubs in Little Bardfield Parish
Spread Eagle
Probably been a house since the 90's