English Heritage sites near Southam Parish
BELAS KNAP LONG BARROW
2 miles from Southam Parish
A particularly fine example of a Neolithic long barrow of c.3800 BC, featuring a false entrance and side chambers. During excavations in the 1860s, the remains of 31 people were found in the chambers.
HAILES ABBEY
5 miles from Southam Parish
Founded by the Earl of Cornwall in thanks for surviving a shipwreck. It housed a renowned relic, ‘the Holy Blood of Hailes’: allegedly a phial of Christ’s blood. Great picnic spot. Audio tours.
ODDA'S CHAPEL
7 miles from Southam Parish
One of the most complete surviving Saxon churches in England, this chapel was built in 1056 by Earl Odda, and rediscovered in 1865 subsumed into a farmhouse. Nearby is the famous Saxon parish church.
GREAT WITCOMBE ROMAN VILLA
9 miles from Southam Parish
The remains of a large and luxurious villa built about AD 250, with a bathhouse complex, perhaps the shrine of a water spirit, and mosaics.
GREYFRIARS
10 miles from Southam Parish
Substantial remains of an early Tudor friary church of Franciscan 'grey friars' founded in 1231.
BLACKFRIARS
10 miles from Southam Parish
One of the most complete surviving Dominican friaries in England, later converted into a Tudor house and cloth factory. Notable features include the church and fine scissor-braced dormitory roof.
Churches in Southam Parish
The Ascension
Southam is a charming little mediaeval church, restored as a family chapel by Lord Ellenborough in Victorian times, and now used as Southam's village church within the larger parish of Bishop's Cleeve. Together they're part of the benefice which also includes Gotherington, Oxenton and Woolstone.
Our services are at 9.30 every Sunday and follow a monthly pattern as follows:
1st Sunday of the month: Holy Communion (1662)
2nd Sunday of the month: Family Service
3rd Sunday of the month: Holy Communion (Common Worship)
4th Sunday of the month: Morning Prayer (1662)
Pubs in Southam Parish
Ellenborough Park
Southam Road, Southam, GL52 3NH
(01242) 545454
ellenboroughpark.com/
Newlands Park, Cheltenham Rugby Club
Southam Lane, Bishop's Cleeve, Cheltenham, GL52 3PE
(01242) 672752