English Heritage sites near Clothall Parish
WREST PARK
12 miles from Clothall Parish
Explore the evolution of the English garden and take a stroll through three centuries of landscape design at Wrest Park.
DE GREY MAUSOLEUM, FLITTON
14 miles from Clothall Parish
Among the largest sepulchral chapels attached to any English church, this cruciform mausoleum houses a remarkable sequence of 17 sculpted and effigied monuments.
AUDLEY END HOUSE AND GARDENS
16 miles from Clothall Parish
One of England's finest country houses, Audley End is also a mansion with a difference. Enjoy a great day out.
HOUGHTON HOUSE
16 miles from Clothall Parish
Houghton House today is the shell of a 17th century mansion commanding magnificent views, reputedly the inspiration for the ‘House Beautiful’ in John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress.
PRIOR'S HALL BARN
16 miles from Clothall 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.
DUXFORD CHAPEL
16 miles from Clothall Parish
A modest but complete and attractive 14th-century chantry chapel, perhaps originally a hospital.
Churches in Clothall Parish
Clothall: St Mary the Virgin
Ashanger Lane
Clothall
Baldock
01462 790594
The parish of Clothall is the smallest of the five parishes in our benefice and lies on the summit and slopes of the chalk hills to the south-east of the town of Baldock. It is a village of scattered farms and homesteads spread over a large area of open farmland. The church of St Mary the Virgin stands on rising ground to the north-east of the village. It consists of chancel with vestry, nave, south chapel and south tower. The present church was built around 1350–70 on the foundations of the older 12th Century nave, and a font - also 12th Century - remains at the West end of the Nave. The south doorway is of the 14th century and retains the original plank door which is never locked.
The Glass in the East window is the glory of the church and it is thought there are only two other windows like these in England, possibly the work of the same hand. It consists of six late C14 medallions including one depicting Mary Magdalene, reputed to have come from the leper colony at Hooks Green. The medallions are surrounded by diamond panes depicting birds of the English Countryside some possibly now extinct.
The author Thomas Stanley was born in Clothall in 1625 and is buried in the church and there are also some fine and interesting memorial brasses on the Chancel floor from about this period.
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No churches found in Clothall Parish