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Suffolk Churches: my Top Sixty

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There are about six hundred churches of any significance in Suffolk, including all of those built before about 1840, and so it is a difficult thing to reduce them to a Top 60. Over the last twenty-five years or so I have visited every one of those Suffolk churches at least twice, in most cases more. There is so much to take into account - the architecture, the setting, the furnishings, the atmosphere, the historical survivals, and most of all the 'wow-factor'. As of September 2024 these are my Top 60 Suffolk churches in order, but like all things this is subject to change.

       


1. Blythburgh

2. Westhall

3. Thornham Parva

4. Badley

5. Southwold

6. Ufford

7. Long Melford

8. Denston

9. Kedington

10. Lavenham

11. Westhorpe

12. Badingham

13. Dennington

14. Stoke by Nayland

15. Kettlebaston

16. St Mary, Bury St Edmunds

17. Framlingham

18. Rushbrooke

19. Ramsholt

20. Nettlestead

21. Icklingham All Saints

22. Hengrave

23. North Cove

24. Brent Eleigh

25. Redgrave

26. Combs

27. Brundish

28. Sotterley

29. Gipping

30. Little Wenham

31. Hessett

32. Gazeley

33. Thrandeston

34. Wordwell

35. Flowton

36. Wingfield

37. Hawkedon

38. Lakenheath

39. Cotton

40. St Edmundsbury Cathedral

41. Eye

42. Mildenhall

43. Kersey

44. Hemingstone

45. Troston

46. Laxfield

47. Cowlinge

48. Herringfleet

49. Barsham

50. Woolpit

51. Withersfield

52. Cretingham

53. Boxford

54. Huntingfield

55. Wissington

56. Little Thurlow

57. Ickworth

58. Fressingfield

59. Aspall

60. Kesgrave Holy Family

   
 
               
                 

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