English Heritage sites near Tostock Parish
BURY ST EDMUNDS ABBEY
6 miles from Tostock Parish
The extensive remains of one of the wealthiest and most powerful Benedictine monasteries in England, shrine of St Edmund.
LINDSEY ST JAMES'S CHAPEL
12 miles from Tostock Parish
A pretty thatched 13th century chapel with lancet windows.
THETFORD, CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE
13 miles from Tostock Parish
The only surviving remains in England of a priory of Canons of the Holy Sepulchre, who aided pilgrims to Christ's tomb: the ruined nave of their 14th-century church, later used as a barn.
THETFORD PRIORY
13 miles from Tostock Parish
The extensive remains of one of the most important East Anglian monasteries, the Cluniac Priory of Our Lady of Thetford and the burial place of the earls and dukes of Norfolk for 400 years.
THETFORD WARREN LODGE
14 miles from Tostock Parish
Thetford Warren Lodge was probably built c.1400 by the Prior of Thetford; this defensible lodge protected gamekeepers and hunting parties against armed poachers.
MOULTON PACKHORSE BRIDGE
16 miles from Tostock Parish
A pretty four-arched late medieval bridge, spanning the River Kennett on the old route from Cambridge to Bury St Edmunds.
Churches in Tostock Parish
Tostock, St Andrew
Church Road
Tostock
Bury St Edmunds
IP30 9PE
01359 235095
St Andrew's, Tostock is open to Visitors on a daily basis from 10.30am to 4.00pm.
You are welcome to visit St Andrew's for a time of quiet prayer, to explore the history of the church or walk around the well kept churchyard which reflects the stability of a rural community with its generations of the same family names.
The Parish Church of St. Andrew is a Grade 1 listed building. There was a church in Tostock mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086 but the present building is believed to date from the 12th century.
The tower was constructed in stages from about 1350. It is believed that the tower was completed in the 1460s as the oldest of its four bells dates from that time.
The Church is a joint Benefice of six Parishes:
Pakenham
Norton
Tostock
Great Ashfield
Hunston
Stowlangtoft
We are part of the Deanery of Ixworth and the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.
The Rector is The Revd Katherine Valentine
Tel: (01359) 235095
Email: [email protected]
Churchwardens:
Jeanne O'Reilly and Barney Harrison
Pubs in Tostock Parish
Gardners' Arms
Church Rd, Tostock, IP30 9PA
(01359) 270460
thegardners-tostock.co.uk/