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Longcauseway Church is a prominent and well known building situated in the town centre of Dewsbury.

The Abbey was founded in the 7th century; St Aldhelm was the second abbot.

Dewsbury Minster is a grade II listed building and has been a place of worship in the area since 627AD when St Paulinus preached at the crossing point of the River Calder at Dewsbury.

St John's is a large stone Gothic style church, built in 1832 which is situated in the centre of Cleckheaton.

Dedicated to St Maelog, a Celtic saint who settled in Anglesey about 1450 years ago.

Perched on a small grassy mound, in the middle of a farm yard, on the outskirts of Malmesbury sits the tiniest church, in service, in Britain.

The first church of All Saints was consecrated by the Archbishop of York in 1900.

St Andrew’s serves a village of approximately 1200 people. It is a well loved and well used building, with a very active congregation.

The tall Saxon tower of St Mary's was not always at the west end of the church as the original nave was dismantled in the late Norman period and the Norman chancel became the nave, with a new chancel added in the late 13th century.

The first Roman Catholic priest appointed in Denaby Main was Father Kavanagh in 1894. Services took place in a disused schoolroom near the railway.

Stainton was first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ‘Stantone with Helgebi’ (Hellaby).

When it opened its doors in 1904 it was declared to be ‘a church built by miners for the miners’.