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Flint walls, a low, steeply pitched roof and a 15th century wooden porch give the outside of St Margaret's a quiet rural charm.

Founded in 907, the abbey was at first a nunnery then, from 974, a Benedictine Abbey of nuns.

An attractive, thriving, late Victorian church, with a modern attached church centre.

The dignified 14th century stone steeple of Olney church makes a distinctive landmark in its setting beside a bridge over the winding River Great Ouse.

Fifteen centuries of English history lie behind the massive Cathedral you see today. It stands at the heart of historic Winchester, once the seat of Anglo-Saxon and Norman royal power, on the site of an early Christian church. It’s been a place of worship ever since.

Legend has it that Illtyd used to retreat to this spot during Lent.

Built in 1878, to the design of architect John Humphries of Morriston, and described as the ‘Cathedral of Welsh Non-Conformity’.

The chapel was built between the years 1387 and 1395 to designs by William Wynford, with Hugh Herland responsible for the traceried wooden ceiling and Thomas of Oxford for the glazing.

The church which lies adjacent to the House but which it antedates by some 400 years, must have been used by the Bishops of Coventry whose seat this was before the advent of the Comptons in the 16th century.