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The present church was opened in 1838 for use as a Chapel of Ease within the Parish of Greasley.

Discover this glorious early Gothic Revival chapel, sat alongside the National Trust house and landscape of Croome Park, laid out by Capability Brown.

The church is an ambitious and self-confident Gothic style building by G B Cox, erected between the wars and finished in 1934.

This is one of England's most celebrated parish churches, and for many church enthusiasts it is one of, if not the, best in the whole country.

The church sits close to Kirtling Towers, a large Tudor gatehouse and the most substantial remaining part of a castle and great house that was the seat of the North family.

The current building is 200 years old, there has been a church on this site since the 10th century.

St Jude's was designed by Edwin Lutyens to be the centre piece of Hampstead Garden Suburb.

A handsome old church.

From a distance, All Saints could be a little red roofed medieval country church, but in fact the appearance of the present building is largely the result of a restoration of the original 13th century

Simon Jenkins, when chairman of the national trust, wrote 'Thaxted is the Queen of Essex and her crown is the church'.