Our Churches
A Team Ministry and a Benefice combine to make 14 diverse and interesting parishes working together in one of the most beautiful and rural parts of Suffolk. We have as many beautiful and much-loved churches, all listed buildings, and all, but St Mary's Halesworth, located in lovely Suffolk villages. Each Church is supported by dedicated and hard-working Churchwardens and Parochial Church Councils of varying sizes.
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​We have a Team Rector (and Priest in Charge), and a Team Vicar, and there are, in addition, three Associate Priests, one Assistant Curate, two Lay Readers and five Lay Elders.
All Saints Church, Blyford
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Address: All Saints Church, Southwold Road, Blyford, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 8JY
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The church of All Saints Blyford was appropriated to Blyford Priory before the year 1200 by Ralph de Criketot. It retains some fine specimens of Norman architecture.
St Andrew's Church, Bramfield
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Address: St Andrew's Church, Bramfield, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 9AB
The church has a detached Norman round tower and thatched roof and a beautiful painted and carved wooden screen, c.1500. Along with the later monuments and glass in the chancel. The church itself is in good repair, having had extensive work done to the thatched roof in recent years.
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St Mary's Church, Chediston
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Address: St Mary's Church, Chediston, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 0AU.
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Our village church welcomes all who wish to come and pray, or share in worship, whether as individuals wanting a quiet space, or together at our services.
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St Michael and All Angels Church, Cookley
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Address: St Michael and All Angels Church, Cookley, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 0LW
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The picturesque church is situated in the middle of Cookley – a small rural village four miles south-west of Halesworth. It consists of 49 houses spread over four miles with a population of approximately 100 souls.
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St Mary's Church, Halesworth
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Address: St Mary's Church, Steeple End, Halesworth, Suffol IP19 8LL
We have a warm and inviting church that has served the community for centuries. It is steeped in history and sits at the heart of the Blyth Valley Team Ministry.
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St Margaret's Church, Heveningham with Ubbeston
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Address: St Margaret's Church Heveningham with Ubbeston, Church Road, Heveningham, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 0EP
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St Margaret’s Church stands on a mound above the roadside and village street of Heveningham. Since the closure of St Peter’s Church Ubbeston, St Margaret’s serves both parishes.
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St Peter's Church, Holton
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Address: St Peter's Church, Beccles Road, Holton, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 8NG
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The Grade II listed church lies between the old village and the 1970's development. It is a lovey round-towered church with Victorian additions and subtractions.
St Mary the Virgin Church, Huntingfield
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Address: St Mary the Virgin Church, The Street, Huntingfield, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 0PR
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The Church is an 11th century grade 1 listed building, largely due to its amazing Victorian painted ceiling - the ceiling was painted by Mildred Holland, the wife of the Rector, who was resident for 44 years from 1848. The church is old, with some fragments of carved stones a Saxon stone coffin and standing cross of the 10th century set into the wall of the tower.
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St Margaret of Antioch's Church, Linstead
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Address: St Margaret of Antioch's Church, Linstead, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 0AD
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St Margaret of Antioch, Linstead Parva is at the extreme eastern end of the village. It was mostly built at the beginning of the 13th century and was constructed as a chapel-of-ease, marking the end of the lands of the Cluniac Priory at Mendham.
St Peter's Church, Spexhall
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Address: St Peter's Church, Church Road, Spexhall, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 0RQ
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A pretty Grade II listed parish church whose basic structure dates from around 1150. The north doorway is thought to be 12th century, whilst there is a small 14th century doorway on the south wall. The south porch was probably built in the 15th century and was restored in 1733. The original round tower fell down in 1725 and was subsequently rebuilt.
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St Peter's Church, Thorington
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Address: St Peter's Church, Thorington Roadm Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 9JG
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The pretty Norman church of St Peter dates to the 11th century, with a striking round tower of flint, and an aisle-less nave and chancel. The church is an important Grade 1 listed building, that is now in reasonably good condition.
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St Mary's Church, Walpole
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Address: St Mary's Church, Halesworth Road, Walpole, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 9AZ
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Walpole derives its name from a combination of the Anglo Saxon pol-a-pool and weala-a-foreigner-a Britain, and in the Domesday Book is spelt Walepola. The church occupies a very early site though the earliest work to be seen today is Saxon.
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Photo courtesy NS Restorations
St Peter's Church, Wenhaston
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Address: St Peter's Church, Church Lane, Wenhaston IP19 9BJ
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The church is open daily, please check with the churchwarden for opening hours (01502 478855). Visitors are most welcome.
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St Andrew's Church, Wissett
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Address: St Andrew's Church, Lodge Lane, Wissett, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 0JQ
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The church, with its 12th century round tower and Romanesque doorways, is in an attractive churchyard by the village street, convenient for the Village Hall. It is high and light, clear from west to east, with traditional furniture, oak pews for about 100, and a good small pipe organ. Through past care it has come down in good structural condition.
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