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The only church dedicated to St Idloes, a 7th century saint about whom very little is known

Built to the orders of one man, Anthony Catesby (1500-1554) of the significant Northamptonshire Catholic family whose main seat was at Ashby St Ledger and were later famous for their involvement in the Gunpowder Plot.

In a tiny hamlet right on the Welsh border, is a very special church, black and white both inside and out, and wonderfully picturesque and rustic looking.

Soar y mynydd is the remotest chapel in Wales, its name is Welsh for 'Zour of the mountain'.

A perfect example of a neo Gothic Victorian church and its parochial buildings designed by George Edmund Street in a unique collegiate style surrounding a peaceful enclosed quadrangle.

The church has a 13th century chancel but the whole of the rest of the church is, unusually, the product of one building campaign, of about 1470, and is fashionably embattled.

John Betjeman, observed that ‘within and without, the church has the charm of old watercolours’.

The church has been built in four stages from the 13th century to 15th century and restored by Nicholas Joyce in 1881.

A beautiful medieval church with many interesting features.

Essentially, St Mary's is a building of the 13th century, though the tower and the great arches supporting it are 14th century, inserted into the earlier building.

Cited as 'a Norman cathedral in miniature’ by Simon Jenkins, this fine Norman church is all that remains of the original 12th century Hospital.