Isleham priory

Open to visitorsan English Heritage site — check opening times and admission before you go

Substantial ruinsruined, but plenty survives above ground

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Being demoted saved this one. Benedictine monks from Brittany built the little chalk-rubble chapel around 1100, and after the priory was suppressed it spent five centuries as a barn — which is why the walls, the round-arched doorways and the half-domed apse survive so nearly untouched. English Heritage reckons it the best example in England of a small Norman priory church. No services here now. Free to visit, exterior any time, and you collect a key from a house on West Street to get inside; St Andrew’s is 200m east.

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